Webcams can bring us all sorts of images, whether they’re shots of Antarctic penguins or the top of Mount Everest. Or my evening’s viewing, which I wasn’t quite planning on but can’t tear myself away from: Watching the partially constructed Cotter Dam in Canberra overflow with water.
We take clean drinking water for granted, but in the developing world it’s a big and expensive problem. Now, scientists are turning to a plant known as the Miracle Tree to create a new way of purifying water.
Zachory Berta says that “GJ1214b is like no planet we know of”. Like Berta, part of a team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics lead by David Charbonneau, his colleagues were surprised when they discovered that this planet is made mostly of water.
Camelbak’s best known for its water-filled backpacks, but instead of focusing on just hydration, the company’s new All Clear bottle incorporates a bacteria-eliminating ultraviolet cap for those times when you have to fill up from a non-filtered source.
Some people go to the beach but eschew going into the water because it’s “gross”. If that’s you, then you are a sucker. According to a new EPA study, playing in the sand more than doubles your chances of getting sick.
It uses the same principle as your Brita filter to purify water, but Black+Blum’s Eau Good bottle does it with way more style using a stick of charcoal that’s always visible through the bottle’s lovely curves.
Travel a mere 22 light years from Earth and you’ll find a planet that scientists believe is the most likely to be able to host water in its liquid state.
Filmmaker Casey Neistat shows a neat trick that can turn a shot full of water into a shot filled with whisky all through… magic? Sleight of hand? Devil’s work? Destiny? No. DENSITY.
Unless this is some sort of poetic retail conceptual art, which I doubt, this is probably the most botched product display of all time. Clearly, this “Unlocked Rugged Mobile” is simply bullshit, and doesn’t “float on water”.
You may think that this image recently posted on Reddit is a 3D rendering or some Photoshop trickery, but it’s a real photo. A reflection of a world map through a water drop.
