#1711 – Splashed
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I wonder if water or gravity kills more phones/tablets. They certainly are much more indestructible than 10 years ago. A small drop used to render most phones in dozens of pieces back then. I think the water thing will go away soon as well. The waterproof coatings that are coming out now will probably be built in soon enough.
Tags: bathtub, book, tablet
Its funny I had a conversation along these lines today (well yesterday since its after midnight). It will be something when we say to kids ‘and we used to carry HARD copies of our text books!’
and this reminds me why i used to think i’ve been born 20 years too early (’83).
Back in my day, we had to cycle 20km to get to school, through a blizzard, uphill both ways, and carrying half your body weight in textbooks on your back! Dagnabbit!
I swear when I first heard that ‘uphill both ways’ part as a kid it messed with my mind so bad. How the heck can you go up hill both ways? Did you live in that weird optical illusion never ending stairway?!? And if so couldn’t you just go the other way and it would always be downhill?
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2006/03/31/school/
Live on the far side of a hill from school, and the only street goes up and over the hill. (Granted, a lot less hill on the way to school than home, but…) And eventually learned a way through the woods, so didn’t have to do the big hill.
smartphones are a lot léss indestructable though…one little drop and your screen gets shattered. I once jumped on an old phone (fell out of my pocket during a concert), jumped on it (it lay on grass, but still)..and it still worked without too many scratches. Good old times.
To be fair, there are models of “new” phones, including smartphones, that are basically indestructible (IE, the GZONE series).
There’s a reason I still have a Library of hardcopy books at home.
Kindle + Ziploc freezer bag = bathtub safeish reading.
Still use the cheap Kindle, just in case.
I don’t understand why you would read a book while in the bathtub. We use our bathtub as a shower, and I only read books when I’m in the bed and I’m about to go to sleep.
Also, I would be much more worried to drop a smartphone on the floor than, say, my old (7 years old) mobile phone. I think the screen could get ruined pretty easily on a smartphone, but I’m just guessing here.
Depending on the screen type, you might put your tablet in a large Zip-Loc bag. Or one of those new carry cases they say are good for the beach.
Technically its dropping ALL your books in the bathtub at once. Which, depending on how many you have, could be really expensive for hardcopies. But with tablets, if you have them backed up elsewhere then you may actually SAVE money by only needing to replace the tablet and not all of your books.
So dropping the tablet in the bathtub is really the less expensive option. 😉
No.
A compelling argument. You are probably right. 😉
Dropping all our books in the tub at the same time would be very expensive. The several thousand pounds would be very painful. And funerals are not cheap nowadays.
I dunno, you could chuck my old fliptop through a window. I dropped it in a full tub once, but I snatched it out and waited a couple days, worked fine. Also, the battery lasted a week while my current smartphone drains by bedtime.
Not that I’d go back. Needs me a real operating system.
Back in my day when you dropped a book into the bubble bath while you were in it, you STAYED in the bubble bath until the tentacles went away galdurnit!
Phones are nowhere near as durable as they used to be. Any of the brick-shaped Nokia phones are good examples of this.