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A telephone with the body made entirely out of rubber. The rubber compond used would include an odorless liquid dog repellent, which would stop it from being chewed. [link]
The circuit board inside would be made of flexible plastic, and the speaker and microphone would be made out of polyvinylidene
fluoride. [link]
(?) Flexible speaker
http://kn.koreahera...07/200104070018.asp
[Cedar Park, Oct 04 2004]
Repellent Liquid
http://www.bugspray...oducts/page632.html
For dogs, cats and small children. [Cedar Park, Oct 04 2004]
(?) Nokia 5210
http://www.nokia.co.../0,4879,125,00.html
[FloridaManatee, Oct 04 2004]
(?) a rubber using his telephone
http://funreports.c...02/10/29/38851.html
[FarmerJohn, Oct 04 2004]
(?) History of Nokia
http://www.nokiainfo.net/nokiahistory.php
[krelnik, Oct 04 2004]
Thermite rocket plunger
mentioned in my anno [notexactly, May 13 2016]
[link]
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Nokia make one. All the bits necessary to achieve your goal of near-indestructibility are rubber. |
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Dog repellant they don't do. |
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[FM]: Nokia's is merely a plastic phone in rubber garb. We've all seen bits of rubber here and there on home and mobile telephones. The phone I propose has its entire case made out of rubber. Probably not possible with a cellular, given the amount of circuitry and batteries. |
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I used to own a rubber alarm clock that you threw against the wall to use the sleep alarm. Sorry it's off base with the cellphone theme, but it was made of all rubber. |
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I've always been amazed at how fragile Nokia phones are, despite their popularity. My friends are constantly relating horror stories. I've dropped my Kyocera phone many, many times, from heights of 3 to 6 feet including onto hard pavement, and it still keeps going. The battery has never popped loose in a fall. So clearly some companies (other than Nokia) have a clue about how to do this right without using rubber. |
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It would make sense for Nokia to make this however, as the company was originally called the Finnish Rubber Works back in the 1920's! (See link) |
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Lots and lots of duct tape. |
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My experience of Nokia phones is opposite to [krelnik]'s. Last year I dropped my 3210 down into the light well in front of my basement window (~8 feet) onto bricks and it suffered no ill effects. Previously I'd bounced my old Nokia 100 (analog thing) down my (stone) basement stairs, all ten of them, with similar results. |
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Sounds like the makings of a new Olympic sport. |
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If they're anything like toilet dogs, a thermite rocket
that shoots bits of molten metal should deal with them.
[link] |
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