{"id":633876,"date":"2026-10-18T00:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633876\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T00:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:12:28","slug":"urban-armor-gear-phone-recovery-pouch-the-best-inventions-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633876\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Armor Gear Phone Recovery Pouch: The Best Inventions of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">When Eliot Harris drenched his phone while washing his fishing boat, he tried putting it in rice. After the technique failed (and left a grain wedged in his charging port), he paused for a beef jerky snack. The snack bag\u2019s silica gel packet gave him the idea for DryOut, a multilayer material that pulls water away from a device, absorbs and traps it, then lets moisture evaporate when exposed to sunlight so it can be reused. \u201cA panel of DryOut the size of a smartphone pulled 900 times more moisture than a silica gel packet,\u201d says CEO Romney Williams. Urban Armor Gear made a pouch with the material to save wet electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Eliot Harris drenched his phone while washing his fishing boat, he tried putting it in rice. After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[310579,13687,10005,342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-633876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-best-inventions-2026","tag-franchise","tag-list","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}