Coming soon the waterproof mobile Military scientists based at Porton Down, Wilts are hoping to clean up the mobile market with a handset you can safely use in the shower.
Technology, initially developed to protect soldiers from chemical attack, has been cunningly adapted to come up with a coating which its inventors have dubbed Ion-Mask.
Once this is applied to mobile phones it can make them resistant to moisture, rain and events like accidental immersion in nightclub toilets.
"Mobile phones and MP3 players are too small to be fitted with seals to make them waterproof, so water inevitably can creep in," Ian Robins, a development director at P2, the spin-off company hoping to cash in on the high-tech breakthrough, told the Telegraph.
"By making the surface repel water, we have been able to take devices that fail the normal… shower tests, and make them pass," he added.
Clumsy, forgetful and stupid mobile owners could soon see Ion-Mask as a God-send. More than 1.2 million mobiles were plopped in lavatories, dropped in drinks or wrecked during a washing machine spin cycle last year.
With P2i in advanced discussions with three leading phone makers about using the coating, the prospect of underwater texting is no longer just the stuff of schoolboy science fiction.
Source:http://www.mobilemarketingnews.co.uk
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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