Dropped mobile phone or iPod in water? Soak it with rice!

Received a forwarded email with the following info:

I just had to check its veracity.
Thus, googled for 'drop mobile phone rice'.

Here are some results:

Dropped your Mobile Phone or iPod in Water? Rush to the Kitchen? True or False?

Dropped your Mobile Phone or iPod in Water? Rush to the Kitchen

This fact is also mentioned in PC Magazine:

529 Computing Tips

Improving Multimedia: Cell Phones
by Sascha Segan

ADVICE
• Dry out a soaked phone
If you've dunked your phone in water, don't despair. Try taking the battery out and packing the whole thing in dry white rice overnight. Sometimes the rice can draw the water out of the phone.

On a personal note, a few years ago, my wife dropped her mobile phone in the toilet bowl @ Genting. Quickly, she took it out and wiped it. Hehe...even if she had known about the rice 'trick' then, finding rice would be a problem.

Anyway, thanks to God, the phone worked for another 2-3 years!