Tag: WETCELLPHONE

We've all lost a high-tech gadget or two to that most low-tech of the natural elements: water. (Or, in the recent case of this writer's laptop, coffee.) Always miles ahead of us stateside folk, who have alternately used hair dryers and bowls of quick rice to dry out our devices, the Japanese have implemented the Dryer Box, a sort of clothes dryer for drowned gadgets. The copy-machine-sized ...

All is not necessarily lost if your cell phone ends up in the drink. If your phone gets doused, do the following as quickly as possible: First off, do not try to turn on the phone if it's already off, or if it's acting funky. Pop out the battery. Dry off the outside as much as possible. Some sources recommend not shaking the phone, as that can actually cause water to travel inside the ...