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Bombproof gadgets

OK, I just can't resist linking to CNET's list of bombproof gadgets. What's the most indestructible gadget that you've owned (or still own)?
Written by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Senior Contributing Editor

OK, I just can't resist linking to CNET's list of bombproof gadgets.  What's the most indestructible gadget that you've owned (or still own)?

Bombproof gadgets
This list of bombproof gadgets is odd in that I've not owned a single item off the list - no, not even a GameBoy - but I have owned tech that has taken a massive amount of hammering but hasn't yet disintegrated or died of some unknown internal malfunction. 

In my list of indestructible gadgets would go several Casio G-Shock watches (which still work but are almost too rough to wear - one survived a close encounter with a serious gasoline fire) and a Creative MuVo MP3 player (which has survived countless drops, crushing attempts and even a couple of dunkings in water). 

But the most bombproof of all my stuff is the box that some of my more delicate kits goes into - a Hardigg StormCase.  We have a yellow one into which a lot of photographic gear goes into which has survived a very nasty car accident which resulted in the destruction of the vehicle and an embossed print of the case on the metal of the door (in fact, the case was jammed in between the door and floorwell so badly that it took a LOT of effort to get it out).  I was fully expecting the contents to be trash (like most other things in the vehicle at the time) but was amazed to find that the case and contents had survived intact (it did pick up some battle scars).  That case is still in service.

What would be on your bombproof gadgets list?

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