- We have been using disposable plastic bottled water which has proved to be a convenient and portable for carrying drinking water. At the same instant it is also seriously harmful to our environment. The reason behind San Francisco banning plastic bottles. If plastics are banned then how would we be carrying water and drinking it? Three designers from London seem to have come up with an interesting and mind blowing design.
- Ooho , a biodegradable membrane that is made from calcium chloride and brown algae to form a gel around water making it easy and safe way to carry drinking water.
- While some has named it as an "edible water bottle," Ooho is actually more of a droplet. The three London-based design students Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, Pierre Paslier and Guillaume Couche who developed this idea aimed to make a cheap, sustainable, portable and durable way to replace plastics, so they moved towards a very old culinary technique called "spherification."
- Where liquid is held together in a gelatinous membrane giving it a spherical shape, here a double gelatinous membrane
- The use of a double membrane is just to ensure that it is durable and also offers a way for a label to be placed in between the two membranes when the product is finally ready to hit the markets. Though Ooho is not ready for market it’s a very interesting thought of drinking water from Ooho.
- All you have to do is put the whole Ooho into your mouth, as the container is edible. Alternatively you can poke a hole in the membrane and then just suck out the water.
- When the company tested it, they did find that using this method means that water goes everywhere, so it does look like it needs some more work before release.
- All things considered, Ooho is a pretty cool, though slightly absurd invention and a beginning of a new way to think about food packing
- And Ooho not the only one onto this edible packaging idea, either. In the next month or so, Wikipearl will make its debut on the shelves of Whole Foods around Boston.
- The design of these little balls was inspired by biological cells and they actually are supposed to be eaten like bon bons. For now, however, it's safe to say that products like Ooho and Wikipearl are a novelty. An intriguing novelty! But a novelty nonetheless
