iPhone 6 meets Gallium - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Homer J Simpson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 01:51:53 am
content: Random YouTube find.Gallium Wikihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium

author: helius
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 02:39:12 am
content: At the end the gallium penetrated to the battery pack and let out the lithium (dark gray element).

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 03:19:11 am
content: This is another example of just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. That was expensive, trashing a new iPhone.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 03:21:58 am
content: Quote from: GreyWoolfe on July 21, 2015, 03:19:11 amWith the tens of millions of views destroying perfectly good phones has gained him, I imagine he's made a pretty penny.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 03:23:07 am
content: I'm all for destroying smartphones in novel and entertaining ways, but he really didn't think that through beforehand did he?Overheated the gallium, didn't have a plastic spatula ready (what, did he think the liquid was going to sit on top of the case?), got gallium on a screwdriver, being surprised when fragments of aluminum-gallium crumble shorted out something in the phone, then when he washed it and the battery shorted out into the gallium-crumble mess, and leaked gunk (what's the reaction of lithium battery guts and gallium?) handled the gunk with bare hands.Crazy.

author: Melt-O-Tronic
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 03:44:34 am
content: It would have been a lot more interesting/entertaining if he had a clue. But it was still slightly interesting.

author: Mr.B
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 03:50:52 am
content: I am with TerraHertz on this one.Aluminium, Gallium, Lithium potentially toxic cocktail on his hands.What a twat.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 04:15:13 am
content: Quote from: Melt-O-Tronic on July 21, 2015, 03:44:34 amExactly my thoughts. "It's like, on the grill man whoa"

author: Rasz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 04:28:37 am
content: Quote from: GreyWoolfe on July 21, 2015, 03:19:11 amexpensive to the tune of ~-$1000, as in he made at least 1K in 20 minutes.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 04:37:40 am
content: Lithium ions in his blood will calm him down though.

author: rs20
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 04:58:49 am
content: Just piling on the criticism, I can't help but think that sandpaper would have been a better solution for the "scratching" part...

author: Artlav
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 11:33:31 am
content: As far as i remember chemistry, adding the water produced aluminium hydroxide, a fairly corrosive base.I'm surprised he hadn't consider that gallium is a conductor, so he could have shorted everything under the back. Battery, for example.A battery like that can vent some very interesting chemicals, and if you were sleeping in the same house with it, then you'd wake up short of breath for the rest of your life - instant disability by lungs being mostly dissolved.That bottle of Gallium is about $200, but if rumours are true you can earn more money from Youtube videos with millions of views.

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 12:29:30 pm
content: was he just expecting it to affect only the rear panel or something? complete lack of anything informational... other than i put gallium on a phone and it broke, he's also a dumbass for not wearing gloves, but thats his lossi actually have 30 grams of gallium here in the lab, keep meaning to do some experiments with different metals... wanted to see differences between tin, copper, lead, magnesium, iron etc, one day i'll get around to doing it.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 12:36:13 pm
content: Finally a legitimate use for an Apple product.</troll>

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 12:48:50 pm
content: My company supplies us with iPhones. I just got upgraded to an iPhone 6. I do like it better than the 4S I had. Personal phone is a cheap Samsung. I have always liked the Samsung. Not sure why we don't have Samsung smartphones but my guess is that someone much higher up the food chain really likes iPhones.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 12:56:58 pm
content: Wow. Not only is this guy a class A moron - really, you had no idea why it was smoking? and you haven't heard of sandpaper?- he may just be the most annoying dude on YouTube. And yes, I'm including PewDiePie.

author: Macbeth
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2015, 02:52:49 pm
content: What an utter cocksocket. To think there must be at least one family missing somebody who jumped from a Foxconn building when that particular phone was the last straw for them on the assembly line...

author: rs20
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 22, 2015, 12:17:02 am
content: Quote from: Macbeth on July 21, 2015, 02:52:49 pmThat's a bizarre connection to draw... if people are jumping off Foxconn buildings for every iPhone sold, surely the the immorality of buying that phone isn't at all contingent on what you choose to do with it?

author: timofonic
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 22, 2015, 01:25:22 am
content: Quote from: rs20 on July 22, 2015, 12:17:02 amMorality? WTF is that? A software? A component? A new device?I always learn new stuff in this forum, you people amaze me...

author: Rasz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 22, 2015, 02:11:01 am
content: Thats a lot of hate for a dude making a quick video and few thousand dollarsHe didnt claim to be scientist, this wasnt some grand experiment, it was pure 'will it blend' entertainment.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 22, 2015, 02:42:58 am
content: Quote from: Rasz on July 22, 2015, 02:11:01 amAre you mental? Will it blend was entirely scientific.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 22, 2015, 08:58:12 am
content: That was not the only iPhone6 that he has trashed, he has whole bunch of videos on youtube such as pouring molten aluminium on one setting another in cement,blowtorch treatment steam iron you name it he has done it to an iphone 6.

author: timofonic
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 22, 2015, 11:31:20 am
content: Quote from: G7PSK on July 22, 2015, 08:58:12 amPrimary School Science with expensive stuff, nice...