Wondering why the geeks in your life are drooling?
It’s CES week!
CES is a geek’s dream, but also an innovation graveyard. So many ideas get bandied around, but not all make it to market. This particular idea has already made it to the consumer.
Liquipel makes a coating that purports to protect your device from extreme dips in fluids.
Check this video out (no smartphone was harmed during the making of this video):
Liquipel has been around for a while; you can get your device treated with the water-repelling material now by sending it in (approved devices are listed here).
They are at CES drumming up corporate business. The idea is that you purchase your device with Liquipel already applied.
Cool stuff. Long live CES!
How would you like your device already coated with Liquipel when you purchased it?
[via Liquipel]
The basic option is only $60, seems like a great solution. I would definitely love to see the option to have devices ship already coated as well.
The only thing is, how well does the seal work around places like the headphone jack, SIM port and around the buttons (volume, home, etc.)? If it works as well as it looks like it does, I’d be sold for any new device that I’m going to purchase.
This is epic… Apple should jump on this bandwagon… GREAT SELLING POINT
what a horrible quality cell phone video, i would consider buying this if it could survive 1 minute completely submerged.
YES! I needed your approval, people. I am NOT weird for liking this LOL.
$60 ain’t bad, particularly when you have a 2-yr old that think no object has truly lived till it has been dunked in a sink full of water.
At the moment there is no proof that it can be submerged just sprayed, i’m very skeptical right now.
Don’t know about the time, but they seem to be legit with regards to submerging: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln0daAowdJI&feature=player_embedded#!
Great find thanks Tre!
Very interesting technology. I remember hearing about a colleague years ago that accidentally dropped their phone into an airport toilet. I wonder if they would have retrieved it if it had this coating on the phone. (I’m guessing probably not.)