Smack that.

Does anyone have a piece of modern technology which has failed miserably in your hands, now you have to wack it against the wall (a few times) just to turn it on? 

I used to see it in movies - most recent one being "Zac and Miri make a porno" where Miri's apple macbook needed to be smacked a few times for the screen to show anything (btw i really don't regard that as a spoiler for the film so don't go thinking that was the best part of the movie or anything)

Now in my hands, is my phone. After (and probably due to) countless plummets onto concrete ground, gliding around the bottom of my bag nearly everyday, strange addiction my friends have to sliding my phone up and down randomly but also excessively when they see it, I now have to wack the phone to adjust the volume to play my music. Though I still haven't figured out the amount of force needed for each volume.. right now i'm working between a solid knock and a baseball throw against my wall

Amen for the symbiosis of technology and brute force