Bobble” Portable Water Bottle by Karim Rashid Filters Tap Water
Even the most environmentally conscious of us have found ourselves tempted to quench our thirst by buying (gasp!) bottled water when we’re out and about and can’t find a place to fill up on clean, drinkable H2O. So wouldn’t it be wonderful if your reusable bottle could also purify tap water from your office, gym or public water fountain, making it infinitely easier for you to avoid purchasing costly and wasteful plastic bottles? Well, that’s exactly what Bobble does — it’s a reusable water bottle with a built-in water filter. Conceived by product design mastermind Karim Rashid, the colorful, modern Bobble is made of recycled plastic, and if that doesn’t impress you, maybe the $9.95 price tag will! This is a great example of smart design — solving a ubiquitous problem that plagues us all.
The Bobble was designed in direct response to the problems associated with bottled water — Americans purchase over $17 billion dollars worth of bottled water per year and a staggering 1.5 million barrels of oil are used to make the plastic bottles it comes in. It also aims to break down the obstacles that block people from making the switch to reusable bottles. When faced with the choice between buying a bottle of trusted water or drinking from a possibly suspect water source, a lot of people opt for bottled at a cost to themselves and to the environment. The beauty of the Bobble is that it eliminates that barrier by giving people the best of both worlds – pure, safe water with no plastic bottles to throw away!
In perfect keeping with Karim Rashid’s amorphous, blobular and often rainbow-hued aesthetic, the Bobble’s carbon filters are curvy and come in six different colors. In addition to being recycled, reusable, stylish and totally affordable, the Bobble is totally PVC and BPA-free. It’s also made in the good old US of A, meaning that its carbon footprint is already significantly less than if it were to be shipped over from somewhere like China where similar products are manufactured.
Just like other, more pricey filters, the Bobble removes chlorine and organic contaminants from tap water, although the website clearly states that the filter shouldn’t be expected to work on water of questionable quality (read: your local pond). The Bobble’s filter is guaranteed to output about 250 bottles of water, and thinking about how much oil we can avoid using if everyone got one of these babies truly “bobbles” the mind.
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These seem like an awesome alternative to SIGG bottles! Cheaper and more useful!