The guys over at Engadget have linked to a Google video over at Grynx.com demonstrating how to pull a laptop back from the brink of an inadvertent spill.

Or, in this case, two consecutive spills.

Here a group of technology authors poured both a glass of red wine on the keyboard, followed by a glass of lemonade. The group then acts quickly, draining the excess liquid off into a towel, opening the laptop, washing it under tap water, then rinsing the components under distilled water before leaving them out to dry.

The end result is interesting, even if the beginning of the video kind of makes one cringe as the liquid is poured into the Dell laptop's keyboard. A soundtrack of "Kung Fu Fighting" only makes it better and it's a good way to look at a semi-inevitable problem.

If you have comments, ideas or experiences of your own with this, let us know.