A DERBY teenager has shattered the myth that Apple products are fragile by blowing up the new iPad Air with high explosives.
Darren Dunn, who runs tech blog YourGadgetGuide alongside journalist Patrick Griffin, wanted to put the £400 tablet to the ultimate test.
So the pair found a friendly farmer to lend them a field and teamed up with Derby pyrotechnical firm Pyrotex Fireworx who supplied the explosives and detonators in order to blow the desireable device sky high.
Remarkably, after the first explosion, the tablet was still working so they brought out the big guns and place it on top of a mortar.
Former Derby Moor School pupil Mr Dunn wanted to go further than other reviewers of the Apple iPad Air and find out how it would bear up under serious pressure.
His YourGadgetGuide venture, launched last year, aims to offer honest, independent appraisals of the latest smartphone and tablet technology.
