Saving soaked personal electronics

From early transistor radios and rotary phones to iPods and Blackberries, electronics have always had one thing in common: you can't get them wet. Bathrooms, rainstorms and crowded bars are all places where slippery fingers or an errant elbow can send your Samsung swimming while you struggle to remember if you bought the insurance or not.

If you didn't get the insurance, there's still hope. According to a

(we know that has a brother's-girlfriend's-uncle ring to it), you can save soaked gadgets by leaving them in an uncooked bowl of rice, which apparently absorbs nearby moisture, resurrecting your device.

Wikihow's got

: soak the thing in alcohol.

alcohol, of course; martinis will kill your celly dead, but the 200-proof stuff will dry it out faster than Tara Conner.