BBC NEWS: Digital memories survive extremes

Ever wonder how tough the little memory cards you feed your digital camera, Pocket PC or MP3 player are? The BBC reports on a test by Digital Camera Shopper Magazine that put five different cards through the just about the worst real life could hope to throw at them.

The cards survived being boiled, trampled, washed, and dunked in coffee and cola. After being smashed with a sledgehammer and nailed to a tree, two of the cards were still able to yield at least some data to experts.

Now we need one of these clearly insane journalists to run the same battery of torture tests on a roll of 35mm film!