Cellphone That You Can Use While In The Shower

Waterproof cellphone… is a wet dream of ours, that’s for sure. Well, military scientists based at the UK are hoping to clean up the mobile market with a handset we can all safely use in the shower.

This technology, initially developed to protect soldiers from chemical attack (army dreamers?), 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.

It seems that mobile phones and MP3 players are too small to be fitted with seals to make them waterproof, so water inevitably can creep in. By making the surface repel water, the scientists have been able to take devices that fail the normal shower tests, and make them pass.

With P2i in advanced discussions with three leading phone makers about using the coating, the prospect of underwater texting is no longer science fiction. And as for the people who drop their cellphones in the toilet… well, they are complete dumb asses.