Slam dunk!
Only a few years back, an accidentally submerged gadget meant a race to the kitchen to find a bag of rice, before burying the device in a bowl of potentially tech-saving grains. What came next was a prayer to the grain gods, followed by an anxious wait to power up and see if you’d saved your gadget from watery doom. If you were unlucky, you’d be looking at a pricey replacement.
Thankfully times have changed, and many of the latest gadgets now come with a degree of waterproofing as standard. The question is, just how waterproof are they? Can we really WhatsApp safely from a banana boat, or read an ebook in the bath, turning the page with foamy fingers?
DEEP IMPACT
To find out how waterproof testing pool to see if they really are waterproof. Sadly the pool is closed for maintenance, so instead I fill a fish tank with icy water. On the coldest day of the year. My hands will love this.
