TechRax

TechRax
Personal information
Born Taras Maksimuk
1993/1994 (age 22–23)[1]
Lutsk, Volynska Oblast, Ukraine[1]
Occupation youtuber
YouTube information
Channel TechRax
Years active 2009–present
Genre Technology
Subscribers 5,286,776
Total views 1,042,846,638

TechRax is a YouTube channel, created by Taras Maksimuk.. The channel mainly features the destruction of phones and technology. As of 31 october 2016, the channel has over 5 million subscribers and over 1 billion total views.

History

Maksimuk began the TechRax channel as a standard tech blog but switched over to tech destruction videos in 2012 after discovering a demand for them. His early videos were a loss, but as his subscriber base grew, he began to make a profit. Maksimuk uses the advertising revenue to finance his college studies.[1] The first destruction he did is "iPhone 5 Hammer Smash Drop Test -Episode #1-".[2] The destruction of Apple products are the most popular on the channel.[3]

Noteworthy Videos

Maksimuk has crushed an iPhone 5S under a train,[4] boiled an iPhone 6 in Coca Cola,[5] performed a head-to-head comparison between an iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 to see which survives longer when boiled in water,[6] and destroyed an Apple Watch Edition with neodymium magnets.[3] The watch cost $10,000, which he raised through advertising in other videos.[7] The video drew over six million views by February 2016.[8] He subsequently melted crayons and dipped an iPhone 6s into them which then resulted in a fire.[8] The business released a popular and controversial video in September 2016 which instructed users on the procedure for modifying the iPhone 7 to supposedly either obtain access to a hidden headphone jack, or to create a headphone jack, which involves essentially drilling a hole into the smartphone.[9][10] It has been widely reported, incl. from actual instances of misled viewers performing this procedure, that this modification is ineffective, and moreover destroys the smartphone; the intentions are unclear, for neither the video was for real or just for humor.(description, etc.) on the YouTube webpage state any warning of the video being intended for humor; moreover, the former actually demonstrates the smartphone supposedly playing audio via the newly-created ''headphone jack''. He also tried to purposely cause a Samsung note 7 to explode by charging it in a very hot oven, but the phone didn't explode. Among his most popular videos are Taking a Bath in a Giant 1,500 Gallon Coca-Cola Swimming Pool(45 million+ views,What Happens If You Taser an iPhone 6 Plus?(30 million+views),Don't Drop Your iPhone 6S in Hot Lava!(29+million views),How To Properly Grind an iPhone 6(26 million+views),Don't Boil Your iPhone 6 in Coca-Cola!(23 million+ views)and What Happens If You Shoot an iPhone 6?(21+ million views.

Drop Tests

The channel also does 100 foot drop tests of the iPhone SE, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and all of the other phones. His very first 100 foot homemade cases drop test is the "Can Play Doh Protect an iPhone 6S from 100FT Drop Test?"[11]


References

  1. 1 2 3 Orf, Darren (2015-05-05). "Meet the Twisted YouTube Geniuses Who Destroyed the Apple Watch". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  2. ↑ TechRax (2012-09-25), iPhone 5 Hammer Smash Drop Test -Episode #1-, retrieved 2016-05-22
  3. 1 2 Kooser, Amanda (2015-06-15). "Watch a $10,000 Apple Watch get crushed by powerful magnets". CNET. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  4. ↑ Statt, Nick (2014-07-24). "iPhone 5S vs. train goes exactly like you'd expect". CNET. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  5. ↑ Wehner, Mike (2014-12-17). "Boiling an iPhone 6 in Coca-Cola, for science". Engadget. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  6. ↑ Moscaritolo, Angela (2015-04-23). "Watch What Happens When You Boil an iPhone 6, Galaxy S6". PC Magazine. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  7. ↑ Elmer-DeWitt, Philip (2015-06-14). "Watch a $10,000 gold Apple Watch get destroyed". Fortune. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  8. 1 2 Kooser, Amanda (2016-02-15). "Watch an iPhone try to survive a hot melted-crayon bath". CNET. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
  9. ↑ "Secret Hack to Get Headphone Jack on the iPhone 7 - YouTube". YouTube. 2016-09-17. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
  10. ↑ "Apple's iPhone 7: People Are Drilling in Headphone Jacks". Fortune. 2016-09-26. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
  11. ↑ TechRax (2016-02-29), Can Play Doh Protect an iPhone 6S from 100FT Drop Test?, retrieved 2016-05-22


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