Amy Nicholson

We're talking about why it is our electronic devices are so easily damaged and destroyed by liquids. And my guest is Rachel Plotnick. She's author of a book called License to Spill, Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives.

We're talking about why it is our electronic devices are so easily damaged and destroyed by liquids. And my guest is Rachel Plotnick. She's author of a book called License to Spill, Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives.

We're talking about why it is our electronic devices are so easily damaged and destroyed by liquids. And my guest is Rachel Plotnick. She's author of a book called License to Spill, Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives.

So Rachel, we were talking earlier. It does seem to me that everybody has had this happen or knows someone who's lost a device because of dropping it in the toilet or whatever. Are there any statistics as to how many devices or how many people this happens to?

So Rachel, we were talking earlier. It does seem to me that everybody has had this happen or knows someone who's lost a device because of dropping it in the toilet or whatever. Are there any statistics as to how many devices or how many people this happens to?

So Rachel, we were talking earlier. It does seem to me that everybody has had this happen or knows someone who's lost a device because of dropping it in the toilet or whatever. Are there any statistics as to how many devices or how many people this happens to?

My sense and my experience, because I once took my phone in my pocket into a hot tub, which I got out of the hot tub and felt my pocket and went, oh, God. And, of course, it didn't work. And I took it to the place. And my sense is that if your phone is submerged in water, it's never going to work right again. I mean, it's never going to come back to where it was.

My sense and my experience, because I once took my phone in my pocket into a hot tub, which I got out of the hot tub and felt my pocket and went, oh, God. And, of course, it didn't work. And I took it to the place. And my sense is that if your phone is submerged in water, it's never going to work right again. I mean, it's never going to come back to where it was.

My sense and my experience, because I once took my phone in my pocket into a hot tub, which I got out of the hot tub and felt my pocket and went, oh, God. And, of course, it didn't work. And I took it to the place. And my sense is that if your phone is submerged in water, it's never going to work right again. I mean, it's never going to come back to where it was.

Maybe it can work again, but it seems like it's always going to be something's, yeah, I dropped it in water, so it doesn't do that thing anymore.

Maybe it can work again, but it seems like it's always going to be something's, yeah, I dropped it in water, so it doesn't do that thing anymore.

Maybe it can work again, but it seems like it's always going to be something's, yeah, I dropped it in water, so it doesn't do that thing anymore.

In your research into this, is this a topic that comes up much in the halls of Apple and the other manufacturers of these electronic devices, or is their position more that it's really up to the consumer to take care of these things once they buy them?

In your research into this, is this a topic that comes up much in the halls of Apple and the other manufacturers of these electronic devices, or is their position more that it's really up to the consumer to take care of these things once they buy them?

In your research into this, is this a topic that comes up much in the halls of Apple and the other manufacturers of these electronic devices, or is their position more that it's really up to the consumer to take care of these things once they buy them?

Well, these devices have become so much a part of our life that when you think about all the times we interact with them, just the law of averages is going to say there's going to be accidents. Things are going to go wrong and they're going to break.

Well, these devices have become so much a part of our life that when you think about all the times we interact with them, just the law of averages is going to say there's going to be accidents. Things are going to go wrong and they're going to break.

Well, these devices have become so much a part of our life that when you think about all the times we interact with them, just the law of averages is going to say there's going to be accidents. Things are going to go wrong and they're going to break.

What is it that happens to the phone when it, I mean, as you said, it depends on the liquid, but just with regular fresh water, what is it that it does to the phone that makes it so if it just dries out, it should work fine. I have the key fob for my car. I've put it in the wash twice now. It works fine after it gets dry. It doesn't ruin it. Of course, that's just a key fob. It's not a computer.

What is it that happens to the phone when it, I mean, as you said, it depends on the liquid, but just with regular fresh water, what is it that it does to the phone that makes it so if it just dries out, it should work fine. I have the key fob for my car. I've put it in the wash twice now. It works fine after it gets dry. It doesn't ruin it. Of course, that's just a key fob. It's not a computer.