How to Make an iPod Bomb

Its usually not short circuits that kill the devise but rust/oxidation fresh water is a really bad electric conductor...

CK.................TMI. (Too much information)

I jumped into a lake with my phone and keys to save a runaway kite... phone and car remote died. After a while, the phone would power up but not the screen. I considered it gone and left it in my car for literally two years. When i was cleaning the car out to give it to my mom, i found the phone, turned it on and it worked! I couldn't believe it.

I was actually talking to a chemical engineering major about something related to this tonight. One of his teachers also works for the local narcotics department and explained to his class that meth labs blow up because of contact of water with sodium (sodium the metal, not salt). He told his class that if meth producers (hello to any out there) wanted to reduce this risk, they should use the lithium from a Lithium Ion battery, because it's *less* volatile than sodium.

Adrian, nice story, but I thought this was an Apple blog, not "Adrian's Creative Writing Exercises." Check out blogger.com and you can write as much as you like! :>

This has actually happened to me! Not only once but twice... first with a Samsung cellphone which was almost brand new. I dropped in the toillet while at the office, when I was taking out of my pocket (while sitting) to answer a call. Took it out immediately and didn't turn it on, as I figured it would cause a short circuit. I took it to my car, separated the battery and left it on the dashboard for about 8 hours (in Florida summer sun!). When I came back out, the phone was dry and I put the battery back in place, crossed my fingers and turned it on... and it was alive! As you can imagine, after such incident I changed the phone the following week... something about taking the phone to my face... yuck! The next time it happened was actually a freak accident. My dogs (pugs) were playing and running around the pool at my house when I heard a splash... one of the dogs jumped into the deep end! Needless to say, I ran out of the kitchen (which leads to the pool area), and leaped into the pool to save my dog! Unluckily, my Nokia 7610 happened to be in my pocket at the time, and ofcourse, got soaked completely. By the time I noticed, I thought it was too late. Anyhow, I left it by the window in pieces, while I took my dog to the vet (he swallowed a lot of chlorined water, dangerous to some smaller breeds), and when I came back, some 3 hours later, I finished drying the phone with a towell and put the pieces back together and turned it back on. It turned on fine, but the phone's audio was irreparably damaged. I had the phone changed. And the dog is fine now. I have also dropped an almost full open can of Diet Coke onto my G4 PowerBook. Nothing serious happened, at least not in functionality... no explotions or short circuits... but the surface suffered physical damage on the lower left corner, where the can's full weight fell and now there's a large dent. Not very aesthetically pleasing on such a beautiful computer as a Powerbook...

A friend of mine who is a painter once dropped her entry-level Moto phone in a bucket contaning water (and brushes) contaminated with latex paint. The phone was on at time... 20 minutes elepased before she noticed! She then immediately removed the battery and let the phone and battery dry. Two days later she connected the battery and the phone worked! Of course from then on her phone started turning itself off at random so she replaced it. But still, I was amazed that it still worked :)

I was out in a thunderstorm once, and when I got out of my car my cell phone fell into the little raging rivers that form on the sides of roads during a storm. The water immediately grabbed the cell phone and so there I was chasing my cell phone down the street -- and then I made a mad dive for it as it approached the storm drain... and the water won. My phone was gone. Some sewer rat somewhere is probably using my minutes.

"always happened"? And your employer continues to trust you with electronics? I think I'd start tying things to my employees the *first* time they dropped something in. Anyway, why is everybody talking about s**t? This is TUAW, not TU Win95 W.

Iso, LOL Wrong, but funny. It's always happened in the same stall at work; it's a smallish stall and though I would normally do as you and your polled friends describe, in those cramped quarters, I instead flush then stand (for fear of doing exactly what I describe in the post: dropping something in the toilet).