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Brian Ashcraft of Wired was having terrible luck with cell phones: he ran through four of them in less than a year. So he took his next one to the Kanda Shrine near Akihabara, which specializes in spiritually purifying electronic equipment. Result: one shiny new purified and blessed cell phone.

He describes the process in a photo essay: Gadget Blessings: Shinto Priest Protects Electronics From Bad Mojo.

(Presumably it won’t let him browse for porn, but he doesn’t seem to mind.)

According to this article in The Register, the Kanda-Myojin Shrine near Akihabara does a brisk business blessing laptops to protect them from viruses and other mishaps.

I’ve been burned by articles in The Register before, but this one includes a photo of the ceremony.