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Designer Creates a Water Bottle That You Can Eat
Diggester (2492316) writes "Rodrigo García González has been working on the Ooho water bottle for the past few years. The bottle is made out of edible materials, looks like a jellyfish, and has the potential to put an end to the bottled water industry. Inspired by the juice-filled pearls added to bubble tea and the mad-cuisine creations of chef Ferran Adriá, who uses a technique known as sheperification (encasing liquid into edible membranes), García is on his way to revolutionizing the bottled water industry."
Let's call the whole thing off.
Ok, the "bottle" can be eaten...but is the "bottle" placed in a sealed box or other container? Or, before use, do you have to sterilize it before use? Plus, not that it is healthy to reuse a water bottle, I see a lot of them being refilled around colleges, businesses, parks etc...
How
can I refill it?
how do I drink half a unit?
how do I keep the outside clean enough to eat?
what is "sheperification"?
I'm still waiting for someone to invent a reusable water bottle. Then the bottled water industry will really be finished.
But why would I ever want to eat the bottle?
So, for the bottle to be edible, it's going to have a removable, non-edible outer wrapping to protect it from contamination during the shipping, handling, and sales process. That means you've just moved the problem one layer out. You're still going to be generating waste.
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They will just go and convert their product to be disposible water spherification carriers.
Now, let's cynically destroy the idea by finding all the ways how it does not work and how it is not completely perfect and thus is automatically completely useless.
Packaging traditionally serves as a barrier between what you're eating and all the dirt and grime found outside it.
The point is to not have to eat that dirt and grime.
Just make them biodegradable and leave it at that.
Now instead of using all of that oil to produce the plastic for the bottles they will now have to use even more oil to run the electrical infrastructure to freeze the water before applying the edible membrane......(sigh).
Still.....if it gets rid of all of those damn bottles......
If I eat it, how will I get the deposit on the bottle? They're hardly going to waste as it is, people turn them in for the deposits, and the plastic gets recycled.
and has the potential to put an end to the bottled water industry.
Looks to me like it's brains that are disposable. When will people learn that the water they get from the water tap is the same that is bottled... Tons and tons of plastic waste would be prevented if people would simply think for a second. (and the economy would crash in a week, yes, as it's based on people stupidity to re-buy the same product every year, but maybe humanity would actually survive the century this way)
Look out bottle industry. People have been wanting to eat those plastic things that slide down your dirty aluminum rollers and get touched by every customer.
We should learn what we need to know about issues, before we decide what we need to feel about them.
Less polution maybe?
The current concept is extremely far from being even slightly practical..
-It's uselessly tiny
-They can't make a video where someone manages to drink from it without spilling it all over the place.
-It's so fragile that it can't reasonably be used on its own.
-It costs 33% the cost of a gigantic bottle to produce, but contains far less than 33% of the volume of water. Cost per unit of water is way high before ignoring how a plastic bottle can be re-used.
Basically the only thing it has going for it is that it will break down nearly instantly in trash. The problem is we already have materials from which we *can* make a water bottle from that in fact would probably work better than this concept that already can be friendly enough to the environment. The problem is they still aren't practical and can't be used because they lack the durability.
This concept is a warm fuzzy with zero value over the current possibilities. It doesn't merely have 'kinks' to work out before it can be used, it's just fundamentally flawed as a concept.
Bottled drinks are a problem, but this is not going to provide a solution.
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I don't think the fact that the "packaging" looks quite a lot like a used condom is going to help the appeal for a large portion of the potential customer base.
To reinvent fruit.
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Impossible to transport, can't eat it if someone touched it on the shelf which means it needs plastic packaging (lol), and Willy Wonka has prior art and likely a patent.
Once I drink all of the contents and eat the bottle I have to get another bottle to wash down the first one, then after I drink all of that one and eat the bottle I have to get another one to wash that bottle down with, then...
Decades ago there was a "liquid candy" marketed to children that came in small (less than 2 oz. I think) mostly(?)-wax "bottles" that were technically edible.
I'm using "edible" as a euphemism for "non-toxic, but no real taste and other than to gross out your parents or show off to your friends there was no good reason to eat it rather than throwing it away."
Was this practical as a "water bottle"? Not really. Is it "prior art" on any related patents? Possibly, especially against any "broad" claims.
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The bottle is made out of edible materials
They could make a lot more money if they used the edible materials to make bongs.
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This is not going to kill the bottled water industry, it's not going to do anything, it's some sort of joke at best and rediculous at worst. You'd have to package the damned thing in order to ship them to stores and the packaging would cancel out the lack of a plastic bottle. Instead of zero-calorie water you're drinking, now there's some weird substance containing it that you're supposed to eat? Who the hell would want that, people who buy bottled water want water, not some weird 'alginate' snack! What about this 'alignate'? Since it's edible, won't it also have a shelf life? Won't it go bad long before the water it's containing and have to be discarded? Isn't that also kind of stupid in and of itself? So far as 'solutions looking for a problem' this scores pretty high, even if I personally think that bottled water is a scam and people should just get their own refillable bottle instead.
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This is a great example of a "solution looking for a problem"
Separately, I like making lemonade and other drinks by adding the flavored powder to a water bottle. This idea is useless for my needs. (Because I don't want to buy nor clean a pitcher)
I imagine though you could send a truckload of these to impoverished people though.
Just you have to rinse it before eating.
as the potential to put an end to the bottled water industry
ORLY?
How strong is it? How easily gripped is it while running or cycling? Can you refill it? Can you reseal it? Can you drink it without dribbling all over the table?
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First line in article: "Let us all face it; carrying an empty bottle of water is nearly as uncomfortable as finding yourself shy of a water bottle."
So, not uncomfortable at all then. Thanks for not wasting any more of my time.
García is on his way to revolutionizing the bottled water industry.
So wait, is he revolutionizing it, or is he putting an end to it?
The point of making it edible is not so that humans can eat it, but instead so that after we finish drinking from it we can throw it on the ground and let birds, dogs, bus, etc eat it. No outer layer needed.
That said, this concept still needs a lot more work before it goes into production
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I really want to stash water balloons in my backpack. What could possibly go wrong?
Want less environmental impact? Use a bota, canteen, or Camelbak.
Ah, economics then.
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My mother cannot stand the taste of the local water supply, even using Brita filters or other filtration systems. Ozarka water is her preferred brand as it taste the cleanest to her. Your mileage may vary on that. I do drink the tapwater casue I drink around 3/4 of a gallon a day.
The cost is usually a lot cheaper than you think, at least if you buy it yourself in bulk. A case of 32 20oz bottles at wally world is about 5-6 bucks. You can do math, so you can see, lots less than a buck a bottle there.
Its portable. Its spillproof. It fits in the fridge a lot better. Local supply gets cut off due to disaster or planned maintenance and you still have potable water.
Plenty of reasons to want bottled water. And they are recyclable too.
In an ideal world, Ooho would replace the 50 billion plastic bottles that Americans consume each year.
Sorry, but I've never consumed a plastic bottle.
Because apparently everyone thinks the only useful feature of a bottle is "lets you hold liquids in your hand."
The whole "resealing" thing is kind of useful, if you can't or don't want to finish your water in one sip.
There's also the thing where you can handle them with dirty hands and the inside stays sanitary.
But as long as you don't care about any of the pertinent features of bottles, sure, this is a "bottle."
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Why? Another poster says it's not for humans to eat, but the article states that they don't taste like much but that the texture "is not something we're used to yet." Even if we can figure out a way to sterilize the bottle on the fly (because of course you would have to do that or else you end up with yet another container you have to dispose of somehow) would you really want to eat this thing? I mean, really, can they make it so delicious that you WANT to eat it? I seriously doubt it.
Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.
How about making a condom out of the same material?
I mean, really, can they make it so delicious that you WANT to eat it? I seriously doubt it.
I used to eat this type of candy when I was a kid. The wrapper was not so delicious, but it was mildly sweet and added a slight "gummy" candy experience when you got saliva over it, so most kids actually WANTED to eat it (not that it was the most sanitary thing to do).
FWIW, it was not unlike the edible rice paper that many folks use to keep macaroons from sticking to a baking sheet or that cake decorators use in conjunction with printers for edible paper...
Of course rice paper isn't remotely water proof, but now days industrial food chemistry technology is much more advanced and capable of simulating many tasty treats, so at least the taste aspect is certainly within the realm of possibility...
Could these be shipped en mass to starving children in Africa? I actually really love this idea; or at least that it exists. There is doubtlessly some problem out there for which this will make a perfect solution, albeit an unlikely replacement for the ever-trustworthy bottle.
Nice to hear that reverse osmosis has become affordable. Most water sanitizing tech isn't significantly better than just letting it sit around in a brass jug for a day, but RO sure is! Brass only kills pathogens; it won't remove all the other contaminants RO can.