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    Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend

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    Image of Curves Curves
    08/07/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    Tip from pros: Place said wet device in an unsealed container (after removing battery if it has one) and place in the freezer for 24/48 hours. This works for wet books too. The freezer zaps the moisture right out of it and prevents mold growth.
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    08/07/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    Uh... you have pockets in your swimtrunks? Are you sure you're not swimming you shorts?
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    08/07/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    Does this work well with urine too? Cause I seem too like dropping my phone in toilets after peeing in them.
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    08/07/09

    @macpatrick: I think the first thing is to stop peeing in your phones. Then dropping them into the toilet won't be such an issue.
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    08/07/09

    @macpatrick: Perhaps it's time to start using a lanyard on your cell phones.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    Who hasn't accidentally left a phone, camera or MP3 player in a swimsuit pocket and gone swimming?
    Uh.... "smart people", I suppose is the answer to that question.
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    08/07/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I haven't "gone swimming" in the literal sense with my phone, but some folks might (colloquially) call it that when I fell in the water pushing a boat from the dock and soaked my N73.
    Got it out of my pocket and it was still running, immediately pulled the battery. Tried the rice trick, got impatient, so took all teh screws out and tore it down, washed everything (minus LCD and battery) with distilled water, then with electrical contact cleaner, then set it in the sun for a few hours. Put it back together, and everything works 100%.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    08/07/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Also, dumb people, very dumb people, and not-borderline-brain-dead people.
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    08/07/09

    @pjfranke: Question: Do you believe going boating with your cellphone in your pocket was a particularly "smart" thing to do? Because the answer to many many many many many many many people is "no".
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    I wanna know who that is with the Gizmodo surfboard, where he lives and if hed be willing to teach me =D
    Snowboarded for a decade, skateboarded for over a decade and have had a lifelong dream to surf. I just moved to Cali though so Im hoping I can make it happen soon!
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    08/06/09

    @deciBels: That's one of three surfboards. There is also a paddle board and a kite board. Did you happen to enter the Summermodo Surf School contest a few weeks back?
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    08/07/09

    @GitEmSteveDave: ♥'sSummermodo: The learn to surf thing excluded Cali (which I had just moved to a few weeks before sadly). Im gonna learn no matter what but itd be fun as hell to learn with a Gizmoden.
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    08/07/09

    @deciBels: Ahhhhh. I was hoping they would have BLam riding the board in a picture, but they didn't.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    Worked for my phone after I submerged it completely in a lake.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    I recently got pushed in a pool after I threw my friend in two seconds before. I told him to remove his phone (and keys and wallet) before i threw him in to be nice. I ruined the element of surprise but his phone didn't get wet.
    I however WAS very surprised when i got pushed in. I jumped out and looked at my iPhone 3GS. The screen started to flicker with lines throughout. I immediately turned it off and threw it in some dry rice.
    A day later it was working as if nothing had happened. I can vouch for this method now from experience! Huzzah for rice!
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    08/06/09

    @jmeltzer:
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    As Alton Brown pointed out, if rice could absorb moisture like this, you could cook rice by leaving it in a bowl on the windowsill on a humid day.
    Now un-popped popping corn WILL absorb moisture and can be tried in situations like this.
    I think the rice rumor got started when people put it in their salt shakers. It doesn't stop rice from clumping, it makes it easier to
    "break up" the clumps because the salt doesn't stick to the rice.
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    Image of dbett dbett
    08/06/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    I recommend Instant Rice. It's quicker.
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    08/06/09

    @dbett: Awesome! +1
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    Saw this two years ago and tried it when I put my phone in my washing machine (pants pocket) and realized it a second later. Rice didn't help...except to clear up all the water so I could trade the phone in for another one, despite no warranty on water damage.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    I got my iPhone soaked when I got caught in a rainstorm last May and tried the rice thing. Unfortunately, it didn't work.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    There is simply nothing that rice isn't good for.


    Nothing!
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    08/06/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Birds at weddings? OH, wait...
    [www.snopes.com]
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    08/06/09

    @92BuickLeSabre:
    If only we could manage to breed rice and duct tape....
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    08/07/09

    @UGA: It can do anything!
    [www.alibaba.com]
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Accidentally Take Your Gadget Swimming? Rice Might Be Your Best Friend
    silica packs work too
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    08/07/09

    @jp182: Thats what I was going to say too.
    I always keep a couple in a bag for just that sort of thing
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    Image of Stacky Botrus Stacky Botrus
    11/07/08

    In reply to Rice-Sized Solar Panels Produced Noodle-Sized Power
    There is also that tech that coats a solar cell with carbonnanoblabla and makes it 96.7% efficient from ANY angle.


    Now, thats the shit.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/07/08

    @Stacky Botrus: I guess whoever was in charge of choosing names for compounds was out takin' a wiz XD
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    11/07/08

    In reply to Rice-Sized Solar Panels Produced Noodle-Sized Power
    @DustyButt:


    Coincidence?


    Photobucket


    Photobucket


    I think not..

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