>> I've heard of TV casualties from the wrist band snapping. LCDs and 
>> Plasmas.
>> The glass on a CRT is usually strong enough to survive,

Yup, whereas the glass in an LCD is usually under 1mm thick - the polarisers 
stop it shattering, but it still cracks easily and then it's useless.

>> I have to wonder what kind of force is necessary to get it to snap. It
>> seemed pretty secure the few times I've played.

Ditto.

> The strap on the earlier models was weaker than the current one. When the 
> damage reports started trickling in, they redesigned it.

I really don't understand how they did not test such an obvious part before 
starting production.  I mean surely, when designing it, they *must* have 
asked themselves "ok, how strong does it need to be".  They could have 
easily got some strong dude to swing something around extremely violently, 
the multiplied the required strength by 2 or 3.  And even then, if something 
went wrong when they started making the sample parts, you think it would 
have shown up in their testing that they were snapping earlier than 
expected.

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