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Fontus Bottle Turns Air Into Water
Fresh Water On-the-Go Avid cyclists may never run out of water again, especially if Kristof Retezár is along for the ride! Mr. Retezár, an industrial design student at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, is a finalist for the 2014 James Dyson Award. His award nominated design for the ‘Fontus’ is a self-filling bottle that literally makes water out of thin air. Appropriately named after the Roman god of wells and springs, the Fontus prototype collects and condenses moisture from the air while a bicycle is in motion. It then fills up a water bottle attached to the bike frame. Noted on the James Dyson Award website, Mr. Retezár says that the Fontus is ‘Useful on long bike tours,
December 10, 2014
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