Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

[anonytrary]

NSFH warning!

Take the title literally. I interpreted the title as "Webapp that creates natural water sound using your phone", so I clicked the play button without realizing this is NOT a water sound.

This is a tone that is played which expels water that got into the phone from the speaker, using the outward pressure created by the tone. Really cool idea.

[supermatt]

Likely inspired by the Apple Watch feature. I’m surprised Apple didn’t build this into their phones as well. Good job!

[Lammy]

FWIW, check out myNoise https://mynoise.net/

[josephmxm]

My bad. I should have put some type of warning

[samstokes]

I wanted to see whether this sound could also be used to amuse my cat, and I can conclusively report that she is not amused.

[rjzzleep]

On iOS there are these Shortcuts you can install in the integrated automation app:

"Water Eject is a simple, yet powerful Siri Shortcut built for iOS and designed to protect your premium Apple devices after being in accidental contact with water by generating an ultra low 165Hz frequency sound wave that propels moisture out from the speaker cavity system."

https://routinehub.co/shortcut/571/

[quickthrower2]

What’s the frequency Kenneth!

I’d love to know more about why this tone and not another. Is a resonance thing? Max energy possible thing? Anything special about the shape of the wave?

[s_gourichon]

Website plays https://fixmyspeakers.com/static/tone.mp3

Spectrogram shows high energy at many frequencies. Waveform shows saturated curve, no surprise. Might have been just recorded from some analog circuit.

[jgtrosh]

I pressed the button, it beeped a couple of times, and then while I was scrolling Firefox crashed. First time it happened on my phone!

[ashazar]

Back in the days of first iPhone apps, there was an app for that. I don't recall the name of that app; but it may be this `Blower`. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blower/id335862325

[shash7]

The best part is that its not even an app. Just go to the link on your phone and press that button. Simple as.

[racl101]

I read the title figuratively:

like when something is good quality it blows something out of the water.

[throwanem]

Pretty cool! Might be worth explicitly mentioning that the volume needs to be all the way up for best effect.

[somedude895]

Now I'm tempted to hold my phone under a stream of water to test this out.

[peanut_worm]

I didn’t know my iPhone could get that loud

[perryizgr8]

I never knew my phone could be this loud.

[hoten]

I never knew my phone had a little tiny fan.

[anthropodie]

> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet,

Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do.

Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

[adrianN]

A phone is ten to twenty hours of minimum wage, and probably a few hundred kilograms of CO2. Not to mention the stuff stored on it. Of course I'd pick it up.

[option_greek]

Yes. The trick is to realize that human hands can safely be washed afterwards. Not to mention there are worse things inside the tummy than whats inside the toilet.

[rubidium]

Kids orient you to poop in a whole new way. I wouldn’t even think about it. Grab it, wash hands, wash phone, wash hands again.

[Daneel_]

I'd pick it up. Pee and poo washes off and phones are expensive, not to mention non-trivial to replace.

[quantumsequoia]

What alternative is there to picking it up? Flushing it down the drain?

[nucleardog]

I mean, it’s a $1400 iPhone that’s some level of water resistant so it’ll work fine when I get it out. (Like, I watch YouTube videos in the shower and occasionally wash it under a tap with soap.)

So yeah, gonna pull it out and wash it and keep using it.

But I’ll never forget.

[daniellarusso]

So, I would be disgusted for sure, especially if it was not my toilet in my own home.

Hypothetically, I would use a dishwashing glove or simply wrap my hand around a clean garbage bag and use that to retrieve it.

Afterwords, not sure what I would do.

I would probably take it apart to clean, and either way, sell it as a functioning unit if it worked, or part it out and sell the parts or the unit as-is.

So, retrieve soiled phone, get new phone, sell old phone for parts.

[joe-collins]

Even if I don't want the phone anymore, I definitely don't want to leave it for a plumber.

[3np]

Have and did. Got lucky as it chugged along fine for a couple of years more after.