Man Saves Wet Palm Pre Using Rice

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently an avid Lifehacker reader, a guy named Dietrich managed to drop his Palm Pre in a puddle and didn't realize for half an hour. You would think that after a thirty-minute soak the Pre would be dead, but Dietrich remembered a tip on Lifehacker involving uncooked rice to dry out wet gadgets. 'I remembered articles on Lifehacker about what to do so I immediately popped the battery out and dried the phone. When I got home I put my Palm Pre in a bag of rice for ten hours. Adding insult to injury, I forgot to take the phone battery out of my pocket and put it through the washing machine. Ten hours later I'm typing this on my Pre. Good job Palm on making an excellent phone.'"