Unboxing an iPhone Treated with Liquipel

Hi, Dave Johnson editor of eHow Tech, and spoiler alert, I’m going to take my personal iPhone and submerge it underwater. So why am I gonna do that? Well is there somebody in your family, your mom your dad somebody else that is kind of a klutz and is always you know spilling or almost spilling liquids all over the table and their phone almost gets wet? Well if you’ve ever accidently dropped a phone in the sink or put it in the washing machine or something like that, you know that water kills electronics, and it’s very easy to kill an iphone by getting it wet. Well when I was at the consumer electronics show back in January I saw a company called Liquipel that coats phones, tablets, and other devices, with this nano-thin like one-thousandth thickness of a human hair coating all throughout the electronics or device that makes it waterproof and it sounded almost too good to be true, so we sent my phone off, got it treated and we’re gonna see if it works for us and if it can work for you. So we open it up and this in fact is the box that I sent my phone in and it’s empty. They did not put the phone in the box. Instead and this was totally unexpected, I didn’t think they were gonna do this, this really nice little can this is what the phone is in. Let’s open it up and see what goodies are inside. And if we go under that, here’s my phone, it works as you can see. So in theory, I should be able to take this phone and submerge it under water and it will work just fine. Let’s see what’s on this card, there are a few instructions, but the most important one is in bold and says “Liquipel does not recommend that your device come in contact with liquids”. That’s good advice but we’re going to ignore that advice, we’re going to see if their coating actually works. And I really hope it does because as I’ve said before this is my iPhone. And here we go, three two one, It is now completely submerged in water. I can press the home button; it still works – even underwater. I pull it out and look at that it still works, and I can turn it off I can turn it on and thank goodness Liquipel works. You’re not supposed to do this every day, you’re not supposed to take a phone that you treated with Liquipel scuba diving, but for taking it out in the rain and accidently falling in the pool, which is what my daughter did. It’s supposed to work fine and it does appear to. You can coat your phone for about $60, a tablet for $90, and if you’re the sort of person who thinks that this might happen to you, I think it’s money well spent. So uh you can go to the Liquipel website, fill out a form, send in your phone, and you’ll get back a phone that is as impervious to water as mine is now.