I'll be smiling for the rest of the week!

matthew_o50 · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:08

On Sunday mum put one of my jumpers in the wash without checking the pockets. It turned out my 2 week old Ipod Nano had been inside one of the pockets and it was only when it fell out onto the garden patio that mum realised. I left it on the radiheater for the last few days to dry out and just tried it. To my amazement it still works as do my Sony headphones that also went through the wash!!!

I was gutted because I thought I was going to have to fork out for another mp3 player (I love my music - keeps me moving on the way to Uni in the morning). Now i'm just so happy! So what have you lot put through the wash that still works?

jezsoup · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:11

matthew_o50 said:
So what have you lot put through the wash that still works?

Not my passport, it went through and it wont work anymore, well wotn be able to use it, and they ahev just put the price of them up:/

I had an old motorolla phone the v2288 phone, took it apart and dried it, put it back together and it worked

aix0 · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:20

I've put loose change through the wash before, still worked after.

Andelusion · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:23

House door keys

Mark A · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:25

My brothers D500 mobile fell in a river while he was sat on a wall, he wouldnt of even realised but someone rung him and he could hear it and looked down only to see the screen lit up under water

. It stopped working after he had fished it out and i put it in the aering cupboard overnight and it worked fine the next day.

Nash · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:03

My three year old son

Vixen · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:04

I always check pockets before I put anything in the wash, so nothing

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Spamalot · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:05

Passport the day before I went on holliday. :mad:

Shoseki · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:06

My little brother put his digital camera through the washing machine. It worked afterwards.

MasterMike · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:10

Hah, another one for putting a passport through the wash. I went to Amsterdam on it, but they were a little unsure, so I got it replaced as soon as I got back.

VeNT · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:12

few memory sticks, thing with the nanos is they are flash based rather than disk drives.

Tute · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:13

A rather expesive watch.

A night in the boiler cupboard and it worked!

Deadly Ferret · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:16

Haven't put anything through the wash like that, but I did recently have a similarly amazing bit of luck following an accident involving an electronic device.

I dropped my mobile phone out of a crane cab, and it landed fifty feet below on one of three scaffold boards that together formed a walkway going around the crane's tower. Not only did it luckily stay put rather than bouncing off a couple of feet to either side and then plunging another fifty feet to the concrete floor, but the only physical evidence of the fall are a couple of very small, hardly noticeable nicks on the plastic at the side. The battery popped out upon landing, and it too stayed put on the scaffold, but it was put back in straight away and sure enough the phone turned on normally and has still been 100% operational ever since that moment. Not so much as a scratch on the screen, and although the battery was forced out by the landing it still houses properly and is completely secure.

gord · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:22

Huzzah for electrical goods.. maybe we should name and 'fame' the brands so we know what devices to buy if we need washable electronics?

Stellios · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:34

My work badge, other than that, nout. Few notes, but they dry out.

THE CHOPPER · 15 Nov 2006 at 02:06

I read in a computer magazine, think it's Custom PC (I read a few different magazines, gaming ones etc) that you can put a keyboard in the wash, dry it out afterwards and it will work perfectly fine afterwards. I have to admit though I am a bit reluctant to throw my G15 in.

lay-z-boy · 15 Nov 2006 at 02:15

usb sticks
ixus 55 camera
d500 phone
30gb ipod
razer copperhead
many sets of headphones

money

all of it works as if it didn't go through the wash, i have a habit of putting everything in my pockets, unfortunately my mum has a habit of putting everything in the wash instantly so its routine for me.

benjo plz. · 15 Nov 2006 at 02:21

lay-z-boy said:
razer copperhead

lol, why the hell did you have it in your pocket in the first place, and how did you forget about it (surely you would have noticed when you went to use your compuer)?

Craig321 · 15 Nov 2006 at 02:31

matthew_o50 said:
On Sunday mum put one of my jumpers in the wash without checking the pockets. It turned out my 2 week old Ipod Nano had been inside one of the pockets and it was only when it fell out onto the garden patio that mum realised. I left it on the radiheater for the last few days to dry out and just tried it. To my amazement it still works as do my Sony headphones that also went through the wash!!!

I was gutted because I thought I was going to have to fork out for another mp3 player (I love my music - keeps me moving on the way to Uni in the morning). Now i'm just so happy! So what have you lot put through the wash that still works?

Most gadgets survive water if you dry them out properly. They tested on The Gadget Show

Nash · 15 Nov 2006 at 03:01

I think my phone could survive a small nuclear blast