My apologies for long blogging holidays, well not that it’s a big matter J-but still. Let’s start the year with some steered but not shaken news. In this fast paced technology era, we have seen innovation of durability side by side with sophistication. But one major industry, i.e. Mobile manufacturers seems to be missing that durability part all along. A high number of mobile phones are ruined when a careless owner drops it down the toilet, spills drink on it or simply take a bit shower in the rain with his/her mobile phone-hack I ruined two of my phone same way.

Fortunately, some scientists in United Kingdom seem to be aware of this very common yet forgotten issue and have come up with a solution.

Originally designed for the military, well not all the coolest gadget originally developed for those soldier boys. The new technology is called Ion-Mask, and by being bonded to the surface of mobile phones, can allow electronic devices to resist water, keeping the sophisticated internal circuitry safe and sound. The Ion-Mask was developed at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Porton Down, Wiltshire. Its intended use was not for mobile devices, and was actually developed as a treatment for soldier’s uniforms to repel toxic vapours and liquids like chemical or biological weapons.

There are obviously some real advantages though, and if this technology becomes available, it should help lessen the waste and cost of the more than a million phones which are destroyed by water damage each year in the United Kingdom alone.

Although P2i hasn’t announced any partnerships with phone manufacturers as of yet, but words are out they are boozing with major Mobile Manufacturers, so we just have to wait a little while longer.