During the recycling process, the solar cells are immersed in water at room temperature.

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That means it won't like being immersed in water or dropped on hard surfaces.

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Requiring no other technology or special skills, the filters are simply immersed in untreated water, stirred and then removed, leaving behind safe drinking water.

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In York, Archbishop Sentamu stood knee deep in water and immersed four adults outside the church of St Michael-le-Belfrey.

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The same physics apply to vehicles immersed in air and water, allowing for different values of mass and viscosity.

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In addition, the popular Motorola i680 will be updated as Motorola i686 with the capacity to be immersed in a meter of water for up to 30 minutes.

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Dr Gilhooly said immersed babies should be removed from the water quickly to avoid that risk.

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In one unusual but revealing study, his researchers repeatedly immersed one side of people's bodies until it showed evidence of habituation, while keeping the other side warm -- and then turned them over and immersed the side that had never been in the cold water and found that there was still a significant reduction in their cold shock response.

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It can be immersed for up to 30 minutes in up to one meter of water and comes with essential apps including, email, a web browser and navigation.

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