Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and some other students from Imperial College London have been working on the Ooho water bottle for the past few months.
The bottle looks like a jellyfish and is made from edible material. Experts maintain that this bottle can end the business of bottled water industry.
Gonzalez's Ooho bottle seems to be inspired by the juice-filled pearls added to bubble tea and the creations of legendary Spanish chef Ferran Adria, who encases liquids in edible membranes known as sheperification. For developing this bottle, Gonzalez and his team used a frozen ball of water and then dipped it into a calcium chloride solution to form a gelatinous layer.
They then soaked the frozen ball in another solution made from brown algae extract and it led to the encapsulation of the ice in a second squishy membrane that further reinforced the structure. The frozen water was kept in the algae solution for long periods of time, which helped the mould to become thicker and stronger.
"The main point in manipulating the water as solid ice during the encapsulation is to make it possible to get bigger spheres and allow the calcium and algae to stay exclusively in the membrane," Gonzalez said.
This edible bottle has been tested in some European cities, but the researchers are planning to perfect it before going big.
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