If YouTube has proven to the world that people are always alive to see their favorite gadgets summarily destroyed by falls, hammering, microwaves, hydraulic presses or blenders. The channel EverythingAppleProHowever, they are doing something slightly different, something that apart from destruction serves as a kind of test and warning.
The channel got a USB Killer, the infamous $ 50 device identical to a USB stick that promises to "kill" any electronic device. It does this by releasing, at the moment it is plugged in, an absurdly high electrical current (generated by a 300V voltage) that instantly fries the motherboard of the device in question what happens because USB inputs do not have the overload protections. energy that loader doors usually bring.
Worst of all you can even build a USB Killer at home with a few pieces of a camera flash and an AA battery. But better not spread it around
Anyway: the fact that the channel decided to test your toy with a series of products. Some of them survived the ordeal, like the GoPro HERO5 (which is not powered by the USB-C port) and an iPhone 4, probably because of the adapter not getting enough power. The 9.7-inch iPad Pro behaved bizarrely on screen when hacked into the USB Killer, but came out intact, while the Galaxy Note7 surprisingly did not explode and only saw its charging capacity disabled.
On the other hand, the new MacBook Pro didn't stand the test and died instantly while having the USB Killer plugged in. An old rumor that Apple computers would have a more robust protection against electrical overload, therefore, was deconstructed in a matter of seconds. Interestingly, the USB-A to USB-C adapter that worked to kill the MacBook was the one provided by Google in the box of its new Pixel alis smartphone, another device summarily fried by the terrifying USB stick!
So if we can learn any of this, don't plug any flash drive into your computer's precious USB ports. You may end up having a really potent headache.
(via The Next Web)
