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Our Digital Demolition Videos: Burn, Hard Drive, Burn

Watch our Digital Demolition video team in action as they torture ruggedized products from Dell, Panasonic, and other companies. In our first demolition video, we take several laptops and bury them, spray them with a garden hose, and drop them. Guess what the results are?

And that's nothing compared to the fire cannon test (more powerful than a flame thrower), where we attempt to melt an external hard drive. Talk about being all fired up! Thanks to our good friends at The Crucible fire arts center in Oakland, CA for their assistance.

Chris Holt (left) and Sarah JacobssonHosts Sarah Jacobsson and Chris Holt show you just how we test the manufacturers' claims and what happens to the electronics.

Have a product you'd like Sarah and Chris to put to the test? Just comment below or let us know on the PC World Facebook Fans' page.

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