There's an art to the modern gadget torture test, particularly if you only have one brand new iPad Air on hand to attempt to destroy. You don't want to completely put the device out of its misery until you've had a chance to make it suffer a little bit and then finally end it in a grand finale that involves hot lava or a large vehicle of some sort. Richard Ryan of RatedRR on YouTube had just such a plan to obliterate a new iPad Air with BBs and bullets, but found some of the drama of his torture test sucked away when the tablet's screen shattered upon being dropped from a height of only a few feet onto the loose-dirt ground.

The next round escalated the pain with a drop on pavement that warped the already spidered screen, and then a quick drop into water completely killed the iPad even before Ryan brought out his big guns Nonetheless, it's worth watching the full video below to see some serious sharp-shooting skills completely take apart Apple's new slate. Let us know in the comments what you think of this demonstration of the iPad Air's durability, or lack thereof. Star Wars Episode 9 filming wraps: But where's that title?

Here we go, ready guys? Brian, I can't believe when you drop it from 9 feet, you broke the screen.

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I think that the Razr is supposed to be pretty tough, the Droid Razr, right? Razr HD. This is meant to be rugged. It's got Kevlar on the back. I have high hopes for this one.

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Oh my God. It has hairline fractures. So, that's also kind of-- Wow, that's a pretty big let down actually. They are not coming on. There's like-- I think they are glass shards in there from it. So, I'm gonna call usable assuming that it comes in later on. This is-- Hey, you know, you tell me what to drop.

This is okay. Here we go, here we go. In 3, 2, 1, drop it! Oh my God, it's totally okay. All right, we hope if this drops on the corner, we got to live with that. All right, here we go, let's go, 3, 2, 1, drop it. It wants to live. It seems this is our first success story. You kind of on that little tablet run. I think I'm gonna do Nook first. I got to say something good stuff for me.

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The Nook is good, and I think the Nook is somewhat sturdy. I can already tell. So, that's not gonna be as usable anymore. Oh God.

Let's try the iPad Mini with the case since we've already-- You're gonna have to retire on that, sorry. Okay, so this is a G-Form case that they lent us to try to drop. They ask us to drop it flat. We'll see what we can do. That case you can tell it's completely tough. All righty. Okay, I'll go up step for this, oh God, all right.

I gonna die. It's okay. They do, but not me. All right, Nexus 7, ready. It came part. The nexus screen is awesome there. We're gonna do-- -See it comes on. I do think for that thing to go on. Okay, okay, here we go. This is like-- I feel like I'm in Foxconn right now. I'm trying to able to play source, okay, here we go. Holding the power button, holding the power button.

I'm not worried about that. I just wanna make sure. You can see my little kit on there, but this is the one that we've already tested, so, okay make him do the thing. You have the damage here where it actually impact right here. Can you see that? Everyone is like, well, I'm mesmerizing. Okay, yeah it's-- Okay.

I want you guys to know that during his announcement, Steven Sinofsky, dropped this thing a whole bunch of times. He skateboarded on it. It was pretty tough when Jeff Cannata had to go on it-- on this, I'm gonna die on later. Okay, make him go. The metal has been warped, right, oh that's too bad. It's on. I'm okay. I'm okay to go. Oh, it's like that. So, it is up to this point. Turns out it takes a long time to drop a bunch of stuff. All right here we go.

So, if it is not fine, I'll be very surprised. That's kind of new. That's a new feature. And over here, here's the battle damage here. You got little rugged- I did-- Chip-- -Oh, rubber chip -All right, there you guys have it. Let's see if we can power the bad boy on here. I mean-- -Here we go. I cannot believe the iPad Mini can take 2 drops off a ladder, but can't the Champs-Elysees. I guess, it's all how it lands. There is much more amazing iPad footage coming up a little later, but first a major trend that's making a major debut here at CES personal data collection galore. The surprise hit of CES.

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And after an hour in a degree oven, the only visible damage was some minor separation at the seams. Watch the torture test here and read the full review of the Kindle Fire HD here. The 7-inch Kindle Fire HD was also torture-tested in the snow. It survived being landed on by a snowboarder and a long drop from a chair lift but, unsurprisingly, the tablet didn't fare so well when Molly Wood repeatedly ran it over with a snowmobile.

Instead of a water test, it survived a coffee spill at a cafe, and when it came to the drop test, the tablet failed after a few spills of its own on the Champs-Elysees. The Always On team didn't perform the cold, heat, or wild-card tests on the iPad Mini, so we're left to speculate as to whether the tablet can survive extreme temperatures and the destructively creative feedback of Always On viewers. Watch the torture test here and read the full review of the iPad Mini here. How to mirror an Android device on your TV: It's simple using Chromecast. We could see new iPads at a March Apple event: There's two possible dates for Apple's next big launch.

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