Digital Trends

Laptop users have always had the Panasonic Toughbooks if they needed to dash off a document in a war zone. Camera owners never have had a digicam that could take a similar beating without ending up on the scrap heap—until now. The Olympus Stylus 770SW ($379.99 USD) is not only waterproof, it’s freeze-proof, drop proof and crush proof. Want to take this baby to the top of Mt. McKinley? No problem. Feel like tossing it on the sidewalk? No big deal as it can take it and still click away. But you get the idea—this is a truly ruggedized digital camera geared for outdoors men and women who want to take snapshots wherever they go—and who might occasionally drop it during their travels. And when you think about it, this camera wouldn’t be bad trekking through the canyons of New York City during a thunderstorm. We couldn’t wait to put it through our own torture test to see if it could really hack it in the wilds of New Jersey. Did it survive? Let’s see, shall we?