Sick of forgetting your waterbottle on rides?
Fed up of foetid waterbladder water?
Industrial design student Kristof Retezár is unleashing the Fontus upon the world – a thermoelectric moisture condensing slice of genius/madness. You maynever have to replenish your waterbottle conventionally again! (Provided you live somewhere muggy, presumably…)
Strapping onto the top tube, the Fontus aims to condense up to 500ml per hour in the right conditions. Here is a cutaway so you can see how it all works:
Is this the future?
More details can be hound here.
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I don’t think it’s the future…
But it’s incredibly cool!
Nice idea, not sure if condensed water still carries traffic or other pollutants though?!
What’s the potential for flicked up poop to make it way through the inlet?
In the UK, wouldn’t it be simpler just to ride with a funnel pointing forward?
Gaffer tape a bowl to the top of my helmet would have collected a few litres today
One for the Mamils who have their saddle too low and pedal with their knees out, it would appear 🙂
Solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Mmmmmm condensed sweat from the guy in front and salty road spray
Its for collecting water in humid environments where you can’t get hold of water. He tested it in a bathroom with hot shower going or something because otherwise the air was to dry
Does that ever happen that its humid and there is no surface water?
Now if it worked in deserts, but it doesn’t does it….