{"id":728,"date":"2009-02-24T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2009-02-24T10:36:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:36:16","slug":"dropped-your-phone-in-the-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/24\/dropped-your-phone-in-the-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropped Your Phone in the Toilet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gray Lady has an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/19\/technology\/personaltech\/19basics.html?_r=1&amp;em=&amp;pagewanted=all\">Low-Tech Fixes to High-Tech Problems<\/a> and one problem that they discuss happens to a lot of people: dropping your cellphone in the toilet (or in my case a cup of beer while at a NJ Nets game).  My phone in that instance was ruined but maybe it didn&#8217;t have to be if I followed the steps below:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Take the battery out immediately, to prevent electrical short circuits from frying your phone\u2019s fragile internals<\/li>\n<li>Wipe the phone gently with a towel<\/li>\n<li>Shove it into a jar full of uncooked rice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It works for the same reason you may keep few grains of rice in your salt shaker to keep the salt dry. Rice has a high chemical affinity for water \u2014 that means the molecules in the rice have a nearly magnetic attraction for water molecules, which will be soaked up into the rice rather than beading up inside the phone.  I have a strong hankering to watch old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6wv0wM8Ht2w\">Mr. Wizard&#8217;s World<\/a> episodes right now&#8230;<br \/>\nThe rest of the article is full of interesting info, like how you can extend your house&#8217;s wi-fi range by making a wave reflector out of an aluminum cookie sheet. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gray Lady has an article titled Low-Tech Fixes to High-Tech Problems and one problem that they discuss happens to a lot of people: dropping your cellphone in the toilet (or in my case a cup of beer while at a NJ Nets game). My phone in that instance was ruined but maybe it didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[458,630,643],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-nyt","tag-tech","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}