That may sound unlikely in a culture that is often described as shockproof.

Later, he would transfer it to the shockproof interior compartment of the boom box.

If the person you're shopping for is a real klutz, he or she might really appreciate a shockproof camera as well.

Everything had a value in relationship to its practicality; the chronograph was shockproof.

Many waterproof digital cameras are shockproof and resistant to low temperatures.

"We're installing a new wrinkle in shockproof mains this week."

He even has a shockproof bunker in the World Trade Center.

Bullets were pounding the shockproof glass that formed the various partitions.

One of them put on the table long brass tweezers and a small, shockproof case studded with plugs.

Wes glanced at his watch and thanked Rolex for their airtight, shockproof cases.

The days I spent on home-design websites, at ikea.com, or researching shockproof security glass.

The medic handed the Templar a small quantity of blood in a shockproof vial.

Shockproof foam padding cushions feet and stays resilient even after prolonged use.

While it may be shockproof, it couldn't stand being mashed between two tanks."

Ann Landers, the advice columnist, who describes herself as shockproof, said, "What are we coming to?"

The shockproof, fireproof, burglarproof safe which normally held them stood open, its shelves bare.

He respected those: no filament, no gas, just a shockproof sandwich of metal and plastic.

I am far from shockproof.

Designer sunglasses in a shockproof case.

It's weatherproof, shockproof and entertaining, and it's found in more products than you can shoot a rubber band at.

'Did you say your watch was shockproof, Bob?'

Anne laughed, too, infected by Corrie's wonderful sense of the absurd and her oddly shockproof innocence.

Basically it is mil-spec ruggedized (water, dust and shockproof) version of Nokia 6210 phone.

She turned from the poet, turned from his shockproof boxes and bright panels, crude equipment considering their surrounds.

Waterproof and shockproof and very exclusive.'

It is made shock resistant by its metal frame and rubber bumpers.

Hickory wood is very hard, stiff, dense and shock resistant.

Virtually all mechanical watches produced today are shock resistant.

To make mechanical watch movements themselves shock resistant various shock protection systems can be used.

The mine uses a blast and shock resistant pneumatic fuze.

The elementary building is equipped with shock resistant glass to ensure the safety of elementary students.

Shock resistant is a common mark stamped on the back of wrist watches to indicate how well a watch copes with mechanical shocks.

It has a certain kind of manganese that was shock resistant and therefore perfect for cannons and railroad car wheels."

The International Organization for Standardization issued a standard for shock resistant watches, which many countries have adopted.

Printed circuits, transistors, and the whole works being embedded in plastic made those units almost as shock resistant as a proximity fuse.

Western Electric were to develop a lightweight, shock resistant, 48 volt Lead-acid battery capable of providing 110 amps for 15 minutes.

Most modern APDS projectiles used high strength shock resistant tungsten alloys.

Thermal shock resistant stoneware - has additions of certain materials to enhance the thermal shock resistance of the fired body.

It was also shock resistant, anti magnetic and water resistant all in one which remained in the forefront for over three decades right through to the sixties.

Before the widespread adoption of shock resistant balance pivots in the 1950s, broken balance wheel staffs were a common cause of watch repairs.

Besides being reasonably shock resistant, the $349.95 player also promises 62 hours of continuous playback with NiMH rechargeable batteries.

The Autographic was self-winding with a power reserve gauge, an unbreakable crystal, a radium dial, and was also water and shock resistant.

All watches in the Flik Flak ranges are Swiss-made with quartz accuracy and are water and shock resistant.

A panic button alarm is a self-contained electronic device powered by an internal long-life battery, typically waterproof and designed to be shock resistant and highly durable.

Today, even divers' watches (according to ISO 6425) must be anti-magnetic as well as being water resistant, sufficiently luminous, shock resistant and have solid straps.

The lamp will last longer and is more shock resistant than a regular incandescent bulb, since it lacks the relatively fragile electrical filament found in incandescent bulbs.

The DP-200 is similarly shock resistant on playback, but appears to have a slightly richer and brighter sound than the iRiver player, with stronger bass signals.

The differential heat treatment allows for the chopping portion and the spike to be harder than the middle section allowing for a shock resistant body with a durable temper.

Shock Resistant Memory resists bumps or vibrations while the laser scans ahead on the disc and stores 40 seconds of music in memory, for virtually skip-free playback.

The G-Shock range of shock resistant watches, is also quite popular, with the 1983 G-Shock DW-5600C being highly sought-after by collectors.

I put all the water and shock-proof ones on this side."

It mounts a radar, special shock-proof seats, and can travel at 30 knots.

The box was lined with a shock-proof gel-pack, scored by six parallel slots.

The hand guards are made out of a lightweight, shock-proof polymer that replaces the wood on older models.

As flash memory devices are solid-state, they are more shock-proof than rotating disks.

The drawing is insured at 50 million euros (£42.9 million) and is being displayed under special shock-proof glass case filled with sensors.

It more than doubles the battery power of your iPhone 4 and provides the complete protection of a soft-touch case and shock-proof band.

It is designed to be shock-proof, and is sealed against water and chemicals, making it well-suited for emergency-services duty.

He wondered whether her silence was tacit approval or whether after a lifetime with Mrs. Sharpe she was shock-proof.

I'm shock-proof.

The youth of today, he understood, considered themselves shock-proof; it was good to know that, faced with an ordinary slab of real life, they reacted like any other human being.

The turntable for playing records, built for Chrysler by CBS-Columbia, is located in a shock-proof case mounted just below the center of the instrument panel.

According to The Sunday Telegraph, "anyone willing to be taken for a smooth ride could hardly find a more sumptuous vehicle, star-studded, gold-plated, shock-proof and probably critic-proof, too."

It is fresh enough to seem ahead of its time even in the shock-proof blase 1990's, and that is the difference between the sordidness of life and the redemption of art.

Among the actors whose deadpan delivery keeps the film at a witty distance from its hero are Brett Harrelson, Vincent Schiavelli, Crispin Glover and Miles Chapin as Larry's dim, shock-proof employees.

In the last part of his treatise, Rimedi contra terremoti per la sicurezza degli edifici (Remedies against earthquakes for building security), Ligorio presented design plans for a shock-proof building, the first known design with a scientific anti-seismic approach.

He answered with the hand-torch that toad been sent across to him with the last batch of supplies: hiscuits, chocolate, condensed milk, matches, cigarettes, and the hand-torch, a long black rubber one, waterproof and shock-proof, the best He was grateful to them.

Critics who reviewed this $17-million historo-pornographic epic in 1980 were unanimous in their disgust; patrons even in shock-proof New York recounted that the theater in which it was showing reeked of vomit, and Mr. Guccione returned to his day job as publisher of Penthouse magazine and never made a movie again.