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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

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