Wet mobile phone? No worries
If you've ever had a water damaged mobile phone or iPhone, this Japanese gadget will pique your interestThere are worse things than getting wet while riding a motorcycle or scooter, but one of the side-effects of riding in heavy rain can be a waterlogged mobile phone.
Far less fun than leaving queues of traffic in your wake, replacing a sodden mobile phone can be a tiresome and expensive chore. But not if you live in Japan!
There's a new gadget designed to literally suck the moisture from the circuitry of your wet mobile phone, simply called Dryer Boxes.
Installed at Yodobashi Camera shops by JMC Risk Solutions, patrons – probably a lot of scooter and motorcycle riders – just dunk their phone in the Dyer Boxes, pay around $13 for the privilege, and Bob's yer mum's brother. It takes around 30 minutes, enough time to have a coffee and read the latest issue of Rapid Train Monthly.
Like a cheap lawyer however, no win, no pay; if your phone goes kaput and doesn't work after a half hour heat session, you don't have to pay.
How the Dryer Boxes work is not public knowledge, but it's possible dilithium crystals and midichlorians are part of their construction.
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