now the first time we checked out the Pelican 1065 hardback case which is an
iPad case or 10-in tablets case was at CES but this is our first time having a
chance to really look at it Hands-On and
yeah we're going to stress test it so I brought along this is my personal iPad 2
so I am actually like super hoping that
uh this case survives the stress test I've got the brightness turned way down
so uh you guys probably can't even see that it's a working iPad but uh
there you go working iPad so uh no scratches or dents of any sort of
reasonable level because I have a snug case which I absolutely love by the way
uh but that's a slim case this is more like uh an extreme ruggedized dust proof
watertight Crush proof legendary Pelican lifetime guarantee case so it's got an
easy open latch which is sealed shut under pressure and impact a foam liner
which has a unique mold to protect iPads and tablets and a watertight gasket
around the outside which has a Tight Seal when the case is shut the automatic
purge valve keeps water and dust out while balancing air pressure and it is
tested for impacts up to 3 ft and submersion to 3 ft now I suspect it'll
survive just looking at having seen the case already in person I suspect it'll
survive a drop of more than 3 feet to be perfectly honest but there's only one
way to find out crazy crazy unboxing so there you go
let's have a look at the case itself it's Pelican so you know it's awesome
it's a nice strong plastic it has kind of a Hollow sound to it because there's
nothing inside there's that purge valve
here's the latch that has kind of a two-stage latch so it's one two just
like that okay so we're going to try and open this up if I can actually figure
out how to do it uh okay what else we got here oh yeah
rugged hinges so like five pieces of
overlapping this and then there's a little feet here so you can put it down
on stuff I don't know all right let's see if I can ah yes there we go so it
had kind of a a bit of a seal going on so thank you for purchasing Pelican uh
they sent me this one so I didn't actually purchase it but there you go
Pelican protector case and the storm case care and instructions so you know
make sure that you maintain your o-ring and don't let
it become sort of cracked and and and let it go bad over time because that
will not be a good thing so speaking of the O-ring the O-ring seal is right here
and is actually more like a instead of like a rubber it's more like a a
neoprene like in terms of what the material feels like so what you can see
is that uh rather than having like a a a
flat surface against a rubber o-ring it's more like an indented surface here
against like a neoprene seal so this should actually be very very waterproof
and then the pieces here are going to prevent the screen from getting
scratched or anything else like that so let's go ahead and chck the tablet
inside I wonder if it'll fit with the snug case oh look at that you don't even
have to take off your uh like you don't
have to take off your regular day-to-day case although I don't think it sealed
100% when it was like that so here we go let's take it out of there so this is my
pristine 16 gig iPad which I really really hope I'm not about to break so
we'll go ahead and put that in there does it go in a particular way uh
doesn't really look like it all right so we're going to leave
that on and I'm going to cross my fingers that the things we're about to
do to it do not destroy it we'll be back
I have to confess the shaking is inside
doesn't really Inspire confidence to the extent that I would normally have with a
pelican product but here we go here's a 3ft drop
test okay
so the tablet survived our 3 foot drop
test let me do a four foot drop
test we're going right we're going right for the corner here we're going for the
goods you guys so uh actually here you can see what happened to the corner on
it last time if you want to check that out so that's our three-foot drop test
let's go ahead and hit it again four feet all
right okay yeah okay no cracks no uh no
no damage of any sort inside got some grass in here that's probably a you know
additional impact resistance okay so
I've had a lot of people ask how tall I am especially in the context of how I'm
a lot shorter than slick so we're going to do a 5 foot 6 in drop test because
that's how tall I am ready
okay all right well the latch hasn't come open which was the problem we had
with our Otterbox iPhone case and you can see that our tablet has indeed
survived however when we dropped it from
that height you can see that we did get some wear on this corner right here so
as much as it was perfect for the 3ot
and the 4ot drop test sorry I might be too close to the camera for them to see
that so there you go that's what the uh the wear on that corner looks like so I
would have liked to see this case a little bit more um a little bit more
padded right around the edges so you can actually see the spot where that corner
impacted but other than that it did keep the screen from cracking it did keep it
from being damaged and I mean the case is waterproof so if we were to say for
example I don't I don't really want to dig it out of this puddle so I'm not
going to do that but uh don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech tips for unboxings
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I mean that that probably wouldn't break it even actually that probably would break a tablet wouldn't it we can do one
more let's do iPad bowling here we
go I mean that's the kind of thing that would break your tablet and that's the
kind of thing that I would expect to you know we should drop it right on the
hinge no okay the hinge because of its double lock actually doesn't have any
problems cool okay yeah survived that's good see screen's still on still works