I was asked to come up with a "punchier description" for our new e-glove cases, which we designed with extra padding in the corners to cushion against blows to the corners of the device. The first thing that hits the ground, is the corner of these rectangular devices. It takes a minor miracle (akin to flipping a coin and having it rest defiantly on its rim) to drop a netbook directly on its side... it always hits a corner first!

In my efforts to conjure adequate adjectives to describe the relief one feels when a laptop is saved from vertical doom by the e-glove case, I immediately thought of those times that I've just up and dropped a laptop on the ground, without any sort of protection. There's something truly gut-wrenching about that sickening crack of hard plastic on hard floor. So, mustering up some confidence I loaded my netbook into our e-glove, and suppressing the death-grip I usually adopt whilst handling expensive electronics at any altitude, I dropped it to the floor, within our e-glove.

It produced what I then described in the advert as a "satisfying thud". The Acer One isn't the lightest netbook either, especially loaded up with that extra-capacity 6-cell battery... it's more like a high-tech brick. Several heads peeked over monitors at the racket. We don't have carpeted floors here, so the hard-wood carried that sound throughout the office nicely. Usually dropping a computer to the floor isn't cause for a grin, but I found myself quite pleased with the result of this particular test, and had to suppress looking too cheerful. "Ooops! Sorry about that..."

Finishing the new e-glove description, I sent it off to our stunt-man James for posting.