This Guy Sent His iPhone XS To 15Km High In The Sky With 110 Balloons, Will It Survive?

iPhones are expensive, and one of the latest offerings from Apple, the iPhone XS, has an eye-watering price tag. If you own this phone, will you take great care of it, be careful when using it, keep it in the safest place to avoid thieves, or will you tie it to some balloons and send it up hundreds of meters in the sky like this YouTuber?

As crazy as it seems, this guy in the city of Lincoln, California, US, tied his new iPhone XS to a bunch of balloons and sent it to sail the sky. Under the user name Techrax, this YouTuber put the device in a Styrofoam box, strapped the box to more than 110 balloons. He also recorded the iPhone’s journey as it glided through the sky.

If you have seen the movie Up, you will recognize the similar scene as the smartphone flies up to the sky. As the iPhone XS went up as high as 10 to 15 kilometers, the recorded video indicates the beautiful journey as well as capture the picturesque landscape of the city.

Later, the balloons started popping and the box landed somewhere near Verder, also in Lincoln, Cali. However, the iPhone XS could record for only 15 minutes because the weather was really hot and it automatically stopped recording.

To get his phone back, Techrax previously attached a GPS device on the box and used another smartphone to track down the package.

And you may find it interesting that this is not the first time the YouTuber has done something like this. About two years ago, he strapped an iPhone 7 to a weather balloon and also sent it to the sky, also with a GPS tracker. At that time, however, he didn’t use any Styrofoam box and instead strapped the phone directly to the balloon. The iPhone 7 returned with scratches but it worked fine.