Edible Water Bottle

[Dryson]

http://www.designboom.com/technology/skipping-rocks-lab-ooho-edible-water-bottle-04-12-2017/

This is an awesome invention not only because it will help reduce plastic bottle waste but it can be used for other things such as supplying astronauts with a new form of consuming nutrients while in space as the nutrients would be contained within the edible bottle elevating the need for trash removal of their food containers every time they eat.

The food storage unit would come pre-packed with serving size portions of the same type of food that is currently eaten but it would be contained within its own edible bubble inside of the edible bottle. When the edible bubble is digested the first layer dissolves releasing the water and liquid nutrients. The inner bubble would then dissolve releasing the vitamin or food.

On Earth, smaller portion of the edible bottle could be used to encapsulate medication or vitamins that when taken the edible bottle would dissolve with the medication already having been taken.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

It's like someone saw an ice cream cone and thought, "We could make something like this useful!"

 

[Snaploud]

I'll just quote a few of the comments from the link:

This is ridiculous, if the outside is coated with salmonella or any other contamination there is no way to avoid it. The whole point of a bottle is to have an aseptic opening. Hope they have insurance.

If the bubble bio-degrades in 4-6 weeks, the shelf life seems minimal. By the time the product is produced, transported to stores, and sold to the consumer, the bubble seems like it would be near the end of its life. Although not a fan of plastic disposable water bottles, they do have a long shelf life. Is there a plan to address a longer time between production and it degrading?

How are these transported to the end user? Are these sold in a package? What is the package made from? How many bubbles are equivalent to one 500 ml plastic bottle of liquid? Is the production of one bubble lower cost than one bottle of water? Or are equivalent volumes of water lower cost in bubble(s) over a bottle?

 

[sojourner]

Come on guys! These people are geniuses! They've created the first artificial grapes! Right down to all of the shelf life.

 

[Kor]

I want these to be big blobs of chewy gel.

Kor

 

[sojourner]

They should be bigger. With nipples.

 

[Dryson]

I wonder how the Edible Water Bottle can be made into a Edible Whiskey Drink?

 

[sojourner]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say: use whiskey instead of water.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I would need something to wash it down with though.