You know the scenario: You’re fiddling with your phone near a sink, the toilet, or some large body of water when suddenly you lose your grip and kerplunk. The horror. Your handset is now just a soggy paperweight.
But what if you lived in a world where your phone was treated with a substance — inside and out — that protected its waterphobic components? And inadvertently dunking it in some H2O carried no consequence?
That is the world we live in thanks to Liquipel, a company that uses a patent pending process to waterproof phones. You pay $60; the company takes your handset, places it in a chamber and sucks the air out. A special chemical vapor is pumped in and, using what Liquipel describes as “technology that’s only found on the surface of the sun,” it’s bonded to your phone on a molecular level. The result is a completely waterproof device (splash it, dunk it, immerse it) that has no perceptible difference in look and feel — the coating is a thousand times thinner than a human hair.
– Daniel Dumas
But what if you lived in a world where your phone was treated with a substance — inside and out — that protected its waterphobic components? And inadvertently dunking it in some H2O carried no consequence?
That is the world we live in thanks to Liquipel, a company that uses a patent pending process to waterproof phones. You pay $60; the company takes your handset, places it in a chamber and sucks the air out. A special chemical vapor is pumped in and, using what Liquipel describes as “technology that’s only found on the surface of the sun,” it’s bonded to your phone on a molecular level. The result is a completely waterproof device (splash it, dunk it, immerse it) that has no perceptible difference in look and feel — the coating is a thousand times thinner than a human hair.
– Daniel Dumas
