What happens When You Cook Your Palm Pilot

Hal-kun writes "What happens when you put a Palm Pilot in the oven to dry with the warmth of the pilot light, only to have someone cook a Pizza while you were out? Take a look. Stick a fork in it, I think it's done."

Comments

Re:Fully intact?

[iansmith]

There are many rugged PDAs out there. Just look into companies that sell items for "Shop Floor Data Collection" and similar enviroments. They are designed to withstand greasy fingers, drops onto concrete, vibration and other abuse.

Some shops have so much oil in the air, any paper left in the open becomes soaked completely in 12 hours. Not to mention open air warehouses that can get extremely hot or cold.

However, nothing is going to protect against extreme heat. You can't keep a closed system cool, and thats what you have in an oven. At least, nothing that will last very long and can fit in your pocket.

Deliberate cooking!

[sdo1]

Is there anyone that actually thinks this was an accident? This "exec" cooked his Palm so he could get the "latest and greatest" as a replacement.

I know a lot of people who have done the same thing. Your laptop seem a big sluggish? Drop it on the pavement "by accident"... and bingo... the IT department hands you a shiny new blazingly fast feature filled replacement.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out what really happened.

-S

Reply to the ArsTechnica dweebs:

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do you people have such a big problem with this guy's boss? The oven really is a great way to dry soaked electronics, as long as someone doesn't turn the temperature up to high. That's how I recovered all except a hard drive from my basement when it was flooded (I also put them in a hot car on a sunny summer day). Now, it might have been better to disassemble the unit first, and maybe use a hair dryer too, but it's kind of tough to cleanly disassemble those little consumer electronics gadgets. Or in retrospect, leave a note on the oven saying what's going on. But I don't understand why, just because he is someone's boss, it seems, you people think he must be a total idiot. What would you do if your palm pilot was drowned like that? Probably not much better.

and this made the front page of slashdot why?

[night_flyer]

Lets leave a VHS tape in a hot car and see what happens.