Ever wondered what would happen if you crushed a kindle in half of course you have – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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Ever wondered what would happen if you crush a Kindle? Of course you have.

An Amazon engineer blogged about how they test the durability of Kindles. The process sounds like every toddler’s dream come true, complete with throwing food at prototypes, drowning them in baths, attempting to poke, prod, and crush them in half with heavy contraptions, and even chucking a few into dryer-like machines.

A machine dropping onto a Kindle prototype.
Amazon’s product testing team choosing violence.
Image: Amazon
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