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Super Sparrow’s lightweight artistic thermoses let you carry your beverages around in style

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PET Bottles are such an incredibly common thing nowadays that you don’t really give them a second glance. You’re more likely to just pick up a bottle, use it, crush it, and throw it away – a behavior centered around convenience, that fuels a fast-paced style of consumerism that isn’t sustainable. It’s this very behavior that Super Sparrow’s bottles are trying to shake off. Super Sparrow’s stainless steel thermoses are designed to be versatile, reusable, artistic, and most importantly, lightweight. Designed to be significantly lighter than your average steel thermos, Super Sparrow’s Stainless Steel Water Bottle is easy to carry around, and even come with a small handle on their lid that makes hanging them pretty easy.

Designer: Iuliia Khvyshchuk

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Available in 3 sizes and a dizzying variety of artistic options, the thermoses are constructed with high-quality 18/10 food-grade stainless steel and are 100% BPA/BPS-free – features that don’t seem all too important until you realize that the materials used in the bottle contribute to how they make your water taste.

In the case of Super Sparrow’s bottles, water (or any beverage for that matter) tastes exactly how you want it to taste thanks to the use of food-grade materials, and the double-walled, air-tight, vacuum-sealed construction keeps your favorite beverages cold for up to an entire day or hot for up to 12 hours.

The largest of the bottles measures 750ml in capacity, but weighs just 0.7 lbs or 337 grams (25% lighter than your average thermos). Super Sparrow achieves this by making the walls of the thermos thinner, without compromising on strength and durability.

The bottles are equipped with a lightweight Flex Cap that also ensures each Super Sparrow is 100% leakproof, and a tiny silicone handle on the top that flips outwards to let you easily carry your bottle anywhere you want.

The consensus being that the Super Sparrow isn’t the kind of bottle you hide away inside your backpack. With 12 different artsy designs to choose from (and an additional 5 solid color variants), the Super Sparrow Stainless Steel Water Bottle is the kind you’d proudly carry with you, either in your hand or strapped to the outside of your backpack. Staying hydrated never looked this good!

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This UV-enabled smart water bottle disinfects bottleneck and the water inside to keep infections at bay

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You might not realize but the all-purpose water bottle could get you infected due to exposure to physical touches. This tech-savvy water bottle seeks to solve this problem with its smart disinfecting bottle cap which keeps any pathogens away for good.

Water bottles have become a staple for most of us whether it be going to the office or a hiking trip on a weekend. Carrying the reserve of water is important and the ability to refill the temperature neutral bottle is more of a normal thing. The latter part can however be dangerous when we consider infections in the current uncertain times. Wearing masks does prevent the chances of infection from spreading, but how about sharing a water bottle with your buddy or refilling it in public places where the chances of getting infected are much higher?

Designer: Sidhesh Wilson

The Halo water bottle is designed keeping this in mind – hence the unique features that disinfect the bottle from the inside. This is done with the tech-infused cap which sanitizes the neck of the bottle and the water within. It’s important to make sure the neck of the water bottle is properly ridden of any pathogen infections because this part is exposed the most to external physical touch. Hence the smart water bottle comes with 3 UVC LEDs (measuring 1mW each) for neck sanitization and a single UVC (measuring 12mW) for water disinfection.

Sidhesh Wilson, the mind behind this practical idea wanted to solve the issue of sharing water bottle while still being sure at all times that there are no chances of infection. The research undertaken by him clearly showed that the bottleneck had far higher chances of infections because it is so close to the water spout, and most of us rest it against the spout to facilitate easy refilling. This physical contact can infect the inside lining of the bottle which needs to be addressed.

Halo water bottle does the job of disinfecting the water and the bottleneck without fail – thus eliminating any accidental spread of dangerous infection including coronavirus and its variants. The idea is still in the prototype stage but has a very high potential to materialize for the consumer market.

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Combo lets you choose between drinking water normally or the infused way

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When I had a major health scare last year, one of the things that I realized that I needed to do more often is to hydrate well. It sounds silly as we all normally get thirsty and drink liquids every day but what we actually drink makes all the difference in how healthy we can be. And of course, water is the first and foremost thing that we need to drink more of instead of all the sugary drinks that we love to consume.

While regular water is the healthiest of all things, there are also things that we can infuse into it that can help boost things like energy, metabolism, and even just plain hydration. There are a lot of infused water brands and recipes that you can try out there but what if you had a water bottle that can let you switch between drinking the regular kind and then adding a bit of boost to your already refreshing water?

Designers: Edward Sims & Andrea Ceccaroni

That’s the idea behind the Combo reusable water bottle concept. It looks like a regular bottle that you drink out of and it can be if that’s just what you want. But there’s a simple contraption on top that lets you put capsules with concentrated shots of nutritious ingredients like baobab, lucuma, and the still very popular açai. When you insert the capsule and you choose to drink boosted water, a shot from that capsule is included in the water flow through the Venturi effect (letting the liquid flow through a constricted section of a pipe).

Basically when you choose the boosted drink, the ingredients from the capsules are drawn into the regular flow of the water from the bottle, giving you a nutritious and maybe even more delicious drink. Note that not all the ingredients are fully mixed with the water. The concentrate itself remains in the capsule so that you can infuse it anytime you want another boost. It does not say how long the capsule will last but it depends of course how often you boost and how much you use each time.

As someone who now (finally) drinks a lot of water, both regular and infused, having one water bottle instead of two alternating ones can be pretty useful. The design itself looks pretty good and doesn’t seem too messy when using the capsules but how it performs in real-life conditions is of course something altogether different but hopefully close to the concept.

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Collapsable Grenade Water Bottle: Fire Water in the Hole!

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Because who doesn’t want to draw a bunch of unwanted attention to themselves when they’re just trying to stay hydrated, this is a collapsable silicone water bottle available on Amazon (affiliate link) that looks like a grenade when completely collapsed, and much less like one when it’s not. Interesting.

Available in red or grey and four different styles of camouflage to suit your particular special ops needs (including red/white for ice-lava warfare), the bottle holds approximately 20 oz. expanded, and 8 oz. collapsed. So it doesn’t carry a ton of water, but you don’t need a ton of water anyways, otherwise, you’ll have to pee in the middle of your mission and blow your cover. Get to the chopper!

The craziest part about this is I don’t think they intended for the product to look like a grenade, since there’s not a single mention of its shape in the entire product description, which is wild because that’s totally a grenade. I mean it even comes in camouflage colors! Despite my wife’s insistence that I am, I can’t be the only one losing my mind over this.

[via The Awesomer]

This 100% plastic-free bottle comes with a reusable filter that can literally purify water forever

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The MY Idra bottle focuses on cultivating great habits – from ensuring that you don’t rely on plastic bottles to drink water, to even making sure that you drink your prerequisite amount of water each day to stay well-hydrated. The MY Idra isn’t just any average bottle, it was designed to change your drinking habits, and last long enough to make sure those habits stick.

Designers: Valentina Vecchia & Fabrizio Boscolo of Webo Design Studio

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The design of the MY Idra bottle began with asking one fundamental question – Can we design a water bottle that completely does away with plastics? The answer, the team found, doesn’t just lie in a simple metal thermos or a glass bottle (which ultimately requires a plastic jug, or a water-purifier with plastic components). Instead, the MY Idra bottle combines storage, filtration, and dispensing right inside one bottle, so all you need to do is fill it up with tap water and the bottle takes care of the rest.

An innovative porous ceramic filter purifies and mineralizes your water, giving you a fresh glass/cup every 15 minutes, and moreover… the filter lasts forever, ensuring you don’t ever need to discard or replace any part of your MY Idra bottle.

Claysilite ceramic gravity filter and Claysilite pearl remove 99% of harmful substances (including chlorine) in 0.8 seconds.

The bottle’s clever design focuses on three really important elements/innovations. For starters, the MY Idra bottle is entirely plastics-free, and is designed to last forever even with constant use. On the outside, the MY Idra comes with a double-layered stainless steel and glass construction. The 18/8 stainless steel enclosure houses the unpurified water, which trickles through the MY Idra’s filter, dripping gradually into and filling up the transparent glass cup below.

A clever design that helps you keep track of your water intake, and helps you stay hydrated by reminding you to drink.

The second and most noteworthy bit of innovation lies in MY Idra’s filter, a unique, everlasting little porous ceramic puck that can both filter as well as mineralize water. Dubbed as Claysilite, the material was developed especially by the folks at Idra to remove microplastics, bacteria, heavy metals, pollutants, pesticides, and many more impurities thanks to Claysilite’s own mineral composition, and its 0.2/1 micron porosity. Silver ions within the Claysilite help keep it disinfected and clean too, ensuring the filter never needs replacement.

To clean the Claysilite filter, all you need to do is put it in boiling water for 10 minutes every month, and the Claysilite filter will practically last forever. Along with the filter comes a Claysilite pearl, a tiny pellet that can remove 99% of chlorine from water in less than a second, making the MY Idra bottle really handy when you’re in a part of the world that has chlorinated tap water.

Finally, everything culminates into MY Idra’s third innovation – the ability to positively impact its user’s behavior. The bottle’s clever design actually encourages you to drink more water and stay well hydrated throughout the day. A rotating metal ring around the lower half of the bottle lets you count exactly how many glasses of water you’ve had in a day. The water trickles through the filters, using gravity to purify itself, and gradually fills the cup up. Once full, the cup detaches from the bottle, allowing you to drink directly from it, while the metal counter ring lets you know how many cups you’ve had in the day.

Reach your goal of 8 glasses per day.

Each MY Idra comes with a 34oz (1000ml) stainless steel bottle (with an aluminum cap), the everlasting Claysilite filtration system, and an 8oz (240ml) glass cup at the bottom. The bottles ship with 12 Claysilite chlorine-removing pearls too (each pearl lasts a month, although you could only use the pearls if you’re subject to chlorinated water), and you can buy extra pearls from the Idra’s website in the future. The bottle’s design is built for long-term usage – the stainless steel elements and glass cup are dishwasher safe, the cap should be hand-washed, and even the filter lasts forever with periodic disinfection in boiling water. Every aspect of the bottle’s built to last as long as possible, barring the Claysilite pearls which need to be discarded every 100 liters… although to ensure that they don’t become waste, the Idra’s design team recommends you add the used pearls to the soil in your potted plants, where they’ll continue to de-chlorinate (although mildly) the soil as you water your plants for years to come. The MY Idra ships in May 2022 and you can grab one at an Early Bird price of $149.

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This donut-shaped EDC is designed to cut through plastics to help streamline the recycling process!

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The Donut Cutter is an EDC water bottle slicing tool designed to cut through hard plastics and streamline the recycling process.

PET is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin in production today. Used in fibers for clothing, thermoforming for manufacturing, and most often in containers for foods and liquids like water bottles, PET is used to produce most of the plastic-based products in circulation today. Since PET plastics aren’t biodegradable, they end up in landfills following their use where they’ll remain for 500 to 1,000 years until they fully degrade.

With plastic water bottles being some of the biggest contributors to PET plastic waste in landfills, industrial design studio BKID Co. constructed an EDC Donut Cutter that carves right through the bottle cap, neck ring, and plastic label to streamline the recycling process and prevent hard plastics from harming wild and aquatic life.

We’ve all seen the tragic photographs of turtles stuck in plastic yokes and birds choking on bottle caps. While PET plastics are certainly the most common form of thermoplastic polymer resin today, they’re also the most damaging to the planet.

BKID’s Donut Cutter slices right through every and any plastic water bottle partly in response to the life-threatening effects that in-tact plastic waste has on wildlife. Made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE), bottle caps and neck rings have a tougher, more durable feel compared to the actual water bottle, but the Donut Cuter carves right through those as well.

Compact enough to fit inside your pants pocket, the Donut Cutter is similar in size to other EDC items like pocket knives and multipurpose tools. Designed with a circular shape, the Donut Cutter is named after its main finger loop that makes handling the EDC plastic cutter intuitive and safe.

Designer: BKID Co.

This donut-shaped EDC is designed to cut through plastics to help streamline the recycling process!

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The Donut Cutter is an EDC water bottle slicing tool designed to cut through hard plastics and streamline the recycling process.

PET is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin in production today. Used in fibers for clothing, thermoforming for manufacturing, and most often in containers for foods and liquids like water bottles, PET is used to produce most of the plastic-based products in circulation today. Since PET plastics aren’t biodegradable, they end up in landfills following their use where they’ll remain for 500 to 1,000 years until they fully degrade.

With plastic water bottles being some of the biggest contributors to PET plastic waste in landfills, industrial design studio BKID Co. constructed an EDC Donut Cutter that carves right through the bottle cap, neck ring, and plastic label to streamline the recycling process and prevent hard plastics from harming wild and aquatic life.

We’ve all seen the tragic photographs of turtles stuck in plastic yokes and birds choking on bottle caps. While PET plastics are certainly the most common form of thermoplastic polymer resin today, they’re also the most damaging to the planet.

BKID’s Donut Cutter slices right through every and any plastic water bottle partly in response to the life-threatening effects that in-tact plastic waste has on wildlife. Made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE), bottle caps and neck rings have a tougher, more durable feel compared to the actual water bottle, but the Donut Cuter carves right through those as well.

Compact enough to fit inside your pants pocket, the Donut Cutter is similar in size to other EDC items like pocket knives and multipurpose tools. Designed with a circular shape, the Donut Cutter is named after its main finger loop that makes handling the EDC plastic cutter intuitive and safe.

Designer: BKID Co.

Joseph Joseph’s reusable water bottle focuses on making the lid as important as the bottle itself

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Loop is a reusable water bottle with an innovative lid design and shapely build, allowing users to slide Loop’s lid over its spout for easy drinking even when your hands are full.

Reusable water bottles have become the modern handbag. Everywhere you go, you’ll find someone clutching one by its lid strap. When a product becomes so popular, innovative design becomes a rarity. Following research periods spent observing the ways people interact with their own reusable and single-use water bottles, London-based design studio Blond Ltd. collaborated with Joseph Joseph to create Loop, a reusable EDC water bottle designed to simplify carrying the lid while taking a drink.

In central London, the designers at Blond Ltd. and Joseph Joseph observed the different ways that people used and handled their water bottles to design an ergonomic and shapely reusable water bottle. When we’re carrying all of our stuff in addition to our water bottle, drinking from it can feel like juggling. Noticing that people have a harder time removing the water bottle’s lid and holding it while they drink, the designers made Loop so that users can slide the lid over the bottle’s neck when taking a drink.

The shape of Loop’s neck was specially designed to double as a storage method for the water bottle’s lid, providing a convenient and sanitary place to carry the cap. Expanding on the design of the Loop, the designers note, “The inside of the loop is gently curved and is an identical match to the bottle’s contours; allowing a tight friction-fit that prevents it from sliding while the user is drinking. Further, the lid doubles up as a convenient carry handle and attachment-point for hanging from bags.”

Double-walled with insulation and made from vacuum-sealed steel, Loop will keep your drinks at your preferred temperature in a durable, long-lasting bottle. An internal screw thread located on Loop’s spout ensures a clean and hygienic drinking surface near the outer face. Additionally, Loop was designed with a wide enough neck to allow room for ice cubes.

Designers: Blond Ltd. x Joseph Joseph

With its loop lid, users can carry Loop with even just one finger. 

Loop’s shapely build is functional and visually appealing. 

The open lid strap allows users to attach it to their backpacks with carabiners. 

Loop can hold up to 500ml of hot or cold liquid. 

This travel tea flask comes with a built-in infuser to give you the best brew without messy tea bags!

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Inspired and derived from Chinese tea culture, Chá is a travel tea flask that brings the ritual of brewing tea at home back into making tea on the go.

Making your first cup of tea in the morning feels like a ritual. Like clockwork, the water boils, the flavor of tea leaves seep into your cup, and the tea is ready to be enjoyed while you curl up next to a window and read. Having tea on the go is a little different. When we make tea in stainless steel, thermal bottles, we can’t see how strong we’re making it and our tea-making rituals are always cut short. Chá is a travel tea flask that ties the ritual back into making tea on the go, born from a collaboration between Chinese EV maker Nio and UAL’s Central Saint Martins.

Chá is a travel tea bottle that can switch between a tea infuser and a regular thermal water bottle. Topped with a transparent lid, Chá allows each user to witness the seeping process while brewing tea to ensure their desired tea strength is achieved. With a handy rubber strap, users can even brew their tea with the bottle strapped to their backpack. The brewing process of Chá is just like filling a water bottle, but the lid of Chá features a compartment where users can place tea bags near a built-in infuser and transparent section that reveals the strength of each brew.

The built-in infuser opens with a turn of the bottle’s lid, then the user can turn Chá upside down and watch as their water darkens with tea. If users want to only drink water, then the infuser can be just as easily closed and Chá can be filled with fresh water to be used as a regular water bottle. Ergonomic and inviting by design, Chá combines style with the traditional ritual of tea making.

Explaining the brewing process, the designers behind Chá describe, “Twisting the two halves of the opaque lid against one another to form an ‘O’ or a horizontal ‘S’, opens or closes the infuser respectively. An open infuser allows the contents of its flask to infuse with each other. Enabling the infuser and flipping the flask upside down exposes the water to the tea leaves for infusion while the user can monitor for their desired thickness of the tea through the transparent lid.”

Designers: ual x Nio

By twisting the lid’s two halves, users activate the infuser. 

Silicone elements provide some grip for Chá’s bottle.

A handy strap allows users to hold Chá in a variety of ways, like strapping it to a backpack. 

Following several ideations, the final form of Chá envisions a subdued, yet bright blush pink stainless steel bottle with silicone elements and a transparent upper lid.  

Bring and make tea on the go with Chá.

The iconic notebook-shaped memobottle now comes in a classy, long-lasting stainless steel design

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I have a theory that you can judge the success of a product by how many people try to rip it off. When the memobottle first launched 7 years ago, it wasn’t long before the market was flooded with copycats. The idea behind the memobottle was simple. Bags and backpacks are designed to carry flat notebooks, folders, laptops, and tablets… So, why should your water bottle be bulky and cylindrical? The memobottle basically pioneered the flat, rectangular bottle design. By shaping the bottles to match international paper sizes (A4, A5, A6), the designers of the memobottle made a water bottle that fits perfectly into your bag and life.

Designers: Jesse Leeworthy & James Butler

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The convenience of a bottle designed to be carried easily everywhere was an immediate success, helping countless people reduce their dependence on disposable bottles of water… Now, they’re back with a fresh redesign. The new design offers a new interpretation of their iconic silhouette, this time swapping the original plastic construction for a robust and sleek stainless-steel construction. Adopting the same flat format, the Stainless Steel memobottles aren’t just convenient and reusable, they’re classy and unique, and coincidentally enough, are much more difficult to duplicate or rip-off than the plastic bottles.

The range spans 4 practical sizes. There’s the A5, a 33oz / 1.1L bottle that is well suited for backpacks and larger bags. The A6, a 16oz / 500ml bottle that fits comfortably in handbags, sling bags, and even back pockets. The A7 comes in at 8oz / 250ml. It’s like a hip-flask, but infinitely sexier. And the ‘Slim’, a 20oz / 600ml, with an elongated profile which makes it perfect for fitting into conventional bottle pockets and easy to pull out of tall bags.

Formed from premium food-grade 304 stainless steel, the new Stainless Steel memobottles are both stain-resistant and durable. They’re layered with a luxurious satin-textured powder-coating which feels great to the touch, while being naturally resistant to scratches and scuffs – keeping your memobottle looking brand new for longer.

The bottle’s minimalist design comes in either all-black or all-white, with the memobottle logo etched on one corner, and the bottle’s size debossed on the other, near the neck. A leak-proof metal cap screws onto a mouthpiece with an internally-threaded neck that offers an understatedly better drinking experience – because of how smooth the outside surface is. And while one would argue that cleaning a rectangular bottle sounds like a hassle, the memobottle comes with its own set of cleaning tablets, developed in partnership with sustainability-brand Single Use Ain’t Sexy. Just drop one tablet in every month and the bottle practically cleans itself – the tablet works with the plastic memobottle range too.

The Stainless Steel memobottle’s unique form makes carrying water incredibly space-efficient, while still being spacious. It’s not surprising to look at that slim bottle and be shocked by exactly how much water it can actually carry. That said, by adhering to common paper sizes, it’s easy to visualize the bottle’s overall shape and size when buying one, and even figuring out where and how you plan on carrying your memobottle – in a bag, backpack, purse, or your pocket. I think it’s just a matter of time before someone designs a MagSafe memobottle that snaps onto the back of your iPhone! (Hey memobottle folks, how about a collab?)

Currently running an Early Bird Discount during their Kickstarter Campaign, the Stainless Steel memobottles range between $37 for the smallest A7 size to $49 for the largest A5 (and $12 for 6 cleaning tablets). They ship globally and are backed by a 2-year international manufacturing warranty.

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