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posted by takyon on Friday July 31 2015, @06:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-sweat dept.

Biking cross-country through rough terrain may mean that access to fresh, drinkable water may be limited. But what if there was a device that could "pull" moisture from the air and transform it into drinking water? That's the idea behind Austrian designer Kristof Retezár's Fontus, a "self-filling" water bottle that can make water out of thin air.

The solar-powered bike accessory uses a Peltier Element to generate water. It's essentially a cooler with two chambers that facilitates condensation, and takes in air as the bike moves, which is then slowed and cooled down by barriers that allows it to condense and form water, which is channelled and collected in the bottle.


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @07:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @07:01AM (#216188)

    California draught? Mmmm beeeeeeer.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @07:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @07:07AM (#216191)

    s/draught/drought/

    Sorry for that mistake from a guy for whom english is the 4th language (5th, but let's discount that forgotten latin...).
    And thanks for pointing it out wittily, I learned something there, laughing.