Our goal: To give you and your iPod a stylish and modern-looking see-through case that also protects your iPod if you drop it... even on hard pavement. To crystal-clear polycarbonate we added tough, resilient TPE rubber edges, with extra at the corners, to give your iPod impact protection where it needs it most. The result: Survivor Clear. How protective is Survivor Clear? We asked an independent testing agency. An independent testing lab put Survivor Clear through rigorous tests for Shock/Drop, dropping it to a concrete floor from a height of 6 ft... (higher than you will probably ever drop it from while standing). It performed. Beautifully. Will your iPod in a Survivor Clear case ever have to withstand the conditions in our tests? Probably not. But, if Survivor performs this well in our tests, imagine your peace of mind.