humidity control

As you can see in this picture, the relative humidity in our place was very high during the winter monsoon. I do not know if it really was 99%, but it was high enough to give trouble drying our laundry, which makes all clothes stink. That is a small problem compared to what the high humidiy does to our digital cameras: if the fungus that makes clothes smell gets on the CCD or inside the lens, they wil be permanently damaged.

There is electrical equipment for reducing humidity, but a moisture absorber as descibed here does a decent job by using the natural properties of Silica gel.