After a week of tech chaos at CES, there were many winners and losers to take away from the show – a winner being HzO’s waterblock coating technology, which “is a chemical vapor deposition that blankets vital electronic circuitry with a nano-thin film containing highly-effective water-repelling properties.”
In an interview with HzO in Pocket-Lint, HzO told them how, “[they] showed the Samsung Chairman the technology with a Samsung Galaxy S that we had coated with HzO and he couldn’t believe his eyes[.] The company has told us that they are also talking to Apple as well, hoping to be able to let Apple make the iPhone 5 waterproof. Samsung is really excited by the tech. We expect HzO to be in next season’s phones.”
When it comes down to it, water is ultimately one of the greatest threats that will make or break your phone, and this technology will save a lot of money. Watch the military-grade technology in action as an iPhone is dipped into a fishtank; after placing it in water, the music still plays out of the attached speaker, also coated in HzO’s coating.
For those of you who won’t be able to get your hands on these already-made waterproof devices, there are up-and-coming after the fact solutions for water-damaged phones, like Bheestie’s bead bag, the answer to all your “dropped my phone in the toilet” problems—a method that uses low-tech molecular sieve beads to absorb water from your device.
(via Cult of Mac; photo via Pocket-Lint)
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