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Often have I wasted a perfectly good bottle of water by
upending
it over my head on a hot day. I'm sure many of us have done
the
same after a particularly difficult jog. This is a waste of water,
but who can deny the relief it provides from the sweltering
heat
of a summer day?
It would
be a great feature (and selling point) for a brand of
bottled water to provide caps with tiny channels punched into
the
plastic. These channels would radiate from the center and
angle
out slightly towards the edges of the cap. Water wouldn't spill
out
of the tiny perforations due to air pressure, but when someone
desires a cooling blast of water, they could point the bottle
towards their head and squeeze, simulating a refreshing
shower.
In this way the dumping of the entire bottle could be avoided.
During shipping the caps could be covered in removable plastic
as
to prevent contamination through the holes. This design would
save water and make bottled water, an already ecologically
dubious business, somewhat greener.
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neat idea, could be a cap under the cap or a simple modified nozzle that "spritzes" the water at a wide angle. |
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Title made me laugh! I saw more of a shower cap
thingy, that screwed onto your head to keep your
newly coiffed hair tidy, whilst is showering. Oh
well, another day perhaps. |
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[-] for promoting bottled water |
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How 'bout a [+] for an idea that would make people buy less
bottled water. Please? My intention was to save water, not
waste it. |
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hmmm
Why not take the concept literally. |
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Small black portable roughing-it showers in a bottle shape so that they clip on the outside of any backpack storing solar heat all day would be good.
I've spent several days in the bush with nothing but a pack a few times, and towards the end of a week you'd give quite a bit for a warm shpritz before bed as opposed to creek or river scrubs. (+) |
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Actually, [21Kwest], I wasn't really begging for a vote, just
refuting the statement that my idea is promoting bottled
water. After all, we all know that stuff is evil, right?
<sarcastic begging>So could you take that back,
pleeeeze?</sb> |
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Also, the croissants must be MINE! <-----kidding |
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I'm not sure whether the advent of micro-showers would stem bottled water purchases - LED lighting was said to stem waste of electricity, but considering the many, many new playful lighting locations that have been made accessible by the low-consumption LEDs... |
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Same with the micro-shower: Who's to say people won't carry two bottles, one containing oxygenated, taurin-laced drinking water, the other containing slightly deodorated, unobtainium-laced showering water? |
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Surely Bombastium would be more suitable than taurin, no? |
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