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Someone Broke Apple's Sapphire Glass By Running It Over With A Car

Jul 12, 2014, 06:05 IST

Marques Brownlee

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The sapphire screen cover has been getting a lot of press this week. The glass is expected to be on the upcoming iPhone 6.

Some have called it "almost indestructible." Well, almost.

A YouTube video published yesterday claiming to be the "ultimate stress test" finally broke the glass cover - but only by running it over with a car.

The Chinese testers tried to break the cover a number of different ways before running over it.

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First they went at it with an X-Acto knife.

YouTube/Steve Hemmerstoffer

But that didn't work. So they tried to hammer a nail through it.

YouTube/Steve Hemmerstoffer

Finally, they decided to run it over.

YouTube/Steve Hemmerstoffer

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And voila, broken sapphire glass. There's no way to know whether or not this video is a fake, but it's received over 111,000 views in the last 24 hours, which says something.

The moral of the story is: Don't run over your iPhone 6 with a car.

Here's the video:

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