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How to: Clean up water damaged electronics

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This is definitely a common thing, as we have blogged about it before. However, Engadget points out another way to dry up an accidentally water logged gadget. What is it? Absorbent, uncooked rice. Apparently, some patience with a blow dryer followed by submerging said gadget into a bowl of uncooked rice was enough to pull the moisture out of the device and get it powering up again.

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It seems to me that the drying out of the device can be attributed more to the blow dryer and the time that the device is left to dry out than to the rice. I have a hard time believing that the rice actually absorbs any moisture at all. Afterall, if it did, we here in the south could cook rice in the hot humid summer just by setting it out on the counter to absorb water from the air.

posted by EricTheGeek on 2007-06-21 16:07:21
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my bfs cousin living in kuala lumpur had a sippy cup spill in her purse and found her blackberry swimming in it. a friend told her to put it in the oven very low for 30 minutes and it works as well as it ever did.

posted by elizabeth in AL on 2007-06-21 17:44:54
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This would have been very helpful last week when I discovered my Blackberry after it spent a half hour in my washing machine!

posted by Scarlett Callas on 2007-06-23 15:21:34
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