The Mantality.co.za Blog

Cellphone in the Toilet

It could happen to anyone: you dropped your cellphone in the toilet. Take the battery out immediately, to prevent electrical short circuits from frying your phone’s fragile internals. Then, wipe the phone gently with a towel, and shove it into a jar full of uncooked rice. It works for the same reason you may keep few grains of rice in your salt shaker to keep the salt dry. Rice has a high chemical affinity for water - that means the molecules in the rice have a nearly magnetic attraction for water molecules, which will be soaked up into the rice rather than beading up inside the phone.

It is a low-tech version of the “Do Not Eat” desiccant packets that may have been packed in the box the phone came in, to keep moisture away from the circuitry during shipping and storage. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m always looking for ways to multitask and save time, so I discovered a neat way to work my forearms (which don’t get much gym time the poor little things) and brush my teeth at the time. Here’s how. Read the rest of this entry »

E.S.E pods (Easy Serving Espresso) are the handy and flavourful espresso pods compatible with an ever growing range of coffee and espresso machines, as well as the newly available Handpresso: Portable Espresso Maker from Mantality.co.za.

You can buy E.S.E pods (very cheaply) from all good coffee merchants in South Africa as well as a few good Spar’s and convenience stores. However, an assortment of full flavoured (and decaf) coffee pods are available online from Xpresso and at R2.94 per espresso pod - which is not bad at all.