Company hopes to sign up major smartphone vendors to use its water-repelling coating

Jan 17, 2012 09:46 GMT  ·  By

A technology that repels water from electronics at a molecular level may be used by Apple and Samsung in their forthcoming devices, according to a spokesperson for HZO, the company that makes the product.

Pocket-lint has learned from HZO that the company is in the process of signing deals with major smartphone makers, including Apple, to coat their upcoming devices with the magical material.

A demonstration video by ZGO (embedded below) reveals that although the coating is invisible to the naked eye, the substance is so powerfully impermeable it can protect an iPod that has been completely submersed in water.

The demo uses a player that has been connected to an external speaker while playing a song. Both the iPod and the speaker have been given the same treatment. Water literally jumps off the speaker’s membrane as the music from the submersed iPod continues to play.

"We showed the Samsung Chairman the technology with a Samsung Galaxy S that we had coated with HZO and he couldn't believe his eyes," a representative of the company told Pocket-lint. "Samsung is really excited by the tech."

The company has told the blog that they are talking to Apple as well. ZGO is eager to have Apple use it in the iPhone 5 to make it waterproof.

"We expect HZO to be in next season's phones," HZO said, after unveiling their miraculous product at CES 2012, in Las Vegas.

To be noted that HZO is not the only company marketing and selling such a technology.

The folks at Liquipel have an identical product on sale. They too showed it off at CES and they used similar scenarios - i.e. submersing an iPhone in a tank filled with water.

It is unclear who has the rights for this invention (most likely the patents are still pending), but the product is, indeed, magical. HZO stands to make a ton of cash from licensing deals.