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The emphasis appears to be mainly put upon the durability of the device, claiming that any screen technology should be able to be dropped safely from heights, be able to resist high temperatures and also survive rigorous motion tests.

Well, from what I've read, just about any nintendo product ever made follows that criteria. I remember reading years ago about a story of a Game Boy (original Game Boy) that was in a house fire. They recovered the Game Boy, turned it on, and the thing actually still turned on. It was unplayable, but you could faintly see the Tetris main screen when you turned it on.

Another story I've heard is of someone who flushed their Game Boy down the toilet and had it still work properly.

In fact, the only reason we don't have our original Game Boy is because we took advantage of a Toys R Us deal where we could trade that in along with 5 old games and get about half off on a GBC. Ours wasn't in too good of shape, but it still worked after all those years. The games we returned were crap.