So I'm doing laundry today...

[Imakeholesinu]

And I'm on my load of whites and I'm putting them into the dryer. So I look down and to my dismay I see my iPod Headphones. ...fuck So I take them out, but they seem to be pretty dry (and suprisingly soft as well.) so I try to plug them into my iPod (which is dead of course because the battery sucks and I need to exchange it for a new one) and then into my PC. THE FUCKERS STILL WORK!!! They work just fine. It's that amazing or am I just overreacting?

[Zeus]

Really depends on what they're made of. As long as electronics are dry and don't have parts that corrode/wash away when they get wet, there's a very solid chance they'll come out OK. I mean, you can take a circuit board, chips, etc., and make them wet but as long as you completely dry it before putting electricity through it it's fine. It's when you get to the cardboard body of speakers or even some of the resistor material that'll actually corrode or destroy their integrity when you get into problems.

So, it would seem that your iPod headphones don't have any such materials.

[Eric]

I don't know how to reply to this post, it's interesting, yet at the same time I ask "Why?" lol.

[Nev]

And I'm on my load of whites and I'm putting them into the dryer. So I look down and to my dismay I see my iPod Headphones. ...fuck So I take them out, but they seem to be pretty dry (and suprisingly soft as well.) so I try to plug them into my iPod (which is dead of course because the battery sucks and I need to exchange it for a new one) and then into my PC. THE FUCKERS STILL WORK!!! They work just fine. It's that amazing or am I just overreacting?

Electronics can be made surprisingly durable. One of the gaming mags stress-tested gaming controllers in various ways, like throwing them out a two-story window or dropping something really heavy on them, and the Nintendo 64 controller at least turned out to have survived most of them.

I'm interested in it generally because I've got my first wearable computing rig coming, and i've got to be highly careful not to spill any water on the fucker.

[Imakeholesinu]

The N64 controller really was more durable? Wow, because every N64 controller I ever picked up had a limp stick.

[Zeus]

The N64 controller really was more durable? Wow, because every N64 controller I ever picked up had a limp stick.

That was the one weakness, but only if you abused the damned thing. We played Goldeneye for about 4 months straight at no less than 20 hours a week with the same 4 controllers and they were fine.

I mean, you really had to beat your stick hard to make it go limp

[Blotus]

It's Mario Party that ruined the sticks.


Ha, you said "limp stick".

[Zeus]

It's Mario Party that ruined the sticks.

Oh yeah, the first one had the games where you had to rotate the sticks! That's they one that forced them to give away free gloves to protect your hand due to all the blisters the kids were getting. That was hilarious :-)