Dropped your cell phone into the toilet? No problem. Heat it in the new mini cooker called 'Dryer Box' - which saves your phone from going kaput
Dropped your cell phone into the toilet? No problem. Heat it in the new mini cooker called 'Dryer Box'u00a0-- which saves your phone from going kaput.u00a0
Manufactured by a Japanese gadget company, the minicooker costs 1,000 yen (about 12 dollars).
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If they fail to rescue the device after 30 minutes, there''s no charge.
If they do hit the United States, they are bound to cause a rage.
"Me and phones don''t get along too well," The New York Daily News quoted Paolo Glaude, a 21-year-old student from Harlem, as saying.
His BlackBerry was once saved after a dousing but was never the same again.
"If it's water damage, you have to pay for a whole new phone sometimes - but sometimes you have to lie," he said.
In the meantime, dropping their dripping-wet phone into a bag of rice to absorb the moisture seems like the only idea.