Water Death: A surprisingly common way for gadgets to check out of this life, especially in Britain. It used to be you could just dry the body for a few days and return it to the store for an exchange, claiming ignorance (I once drowned a phone in Kahlua – don't ask – and got an exchange).
The manufacturers got wise, and now you'll find a lot of gadgets incorporate a water-damage sensor, which changes color irreversibly when it gets wet. In the picture above you'll see the iPhone and the iPod Touch implementations.
Typically for Apple, there is a user-friendly tweak to the usual internal design: the disc can be seen through the headphone socket, so the Geniuses can quickly diagnose your scam. Now there's one less thing to do with a bricked iPhone.
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