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Of all the gizmos I have owned, it's only my old Casio Z55 digicam that has suffered getting wet. I was in Bangkok, trying to find something to do on a boring Sunday. I was avoiding the malls and wanted to see life beyond commerce when all of a sudden the rain poured. And that was the last of my first digital camera.

If only I knew this then:



I didn't know rice was a natural desiccant. Then again, I never did understood the principle behind desiccants, only that they came in shoeboxes. I wonder if the same principle applies to massive things like a widescreen TV or a fridge.