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Slurp Up Buddy
We tend to associate polluted water problems with under-developed countries and rarely give a thought to how we would cope with a situation when our fully developed city comes under the siege of Mother Nature’s fury! At times like this, contraptions like the Happy Basin for instant purified drinking water can come as a relief. The basin includes nano ceramic filters embedded in the holes at the bottom of the cup that help in the filtration of polluted water. You simply need to push the basin into the water body and let surface tension buoyancy take its course.
Clean, precious water; up for slurps!
Designers: Woo sik Kim & Duck soo Choi
28 Comments »
Declan says
brilliant!
Jeff says
Physics fail, yet again!
Surface tension doesn’t work like that. Surface tension is something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
’surface tension buoyancy’? Really?
Wow.
Canastrophy says
There’s a reason these guys do only industrial design, without having to think if it works or not.
Szilveszter Buzasi says
Yeah. But the designer guys havte to go one step further than the technologie. Desiners define the solutions for the need. It could be that the solutions do not match with the tech. today, but if an ingenieur look at this page… maybe can say : ” Ah its nice and maybe we can make it work”
than we won. An ingenieur whatch only the things how they run perfectly, but not further, for them is important how to make better the existing technologie with the given machine.
This design above is formaly really anice solution I think because with the circle you define you purified little pond.
By : Sly
SuiDepPhaStu says
Worthless crap held up by meaningless buzzwords and technobabble.
I really hope this is the product of a wannabe playing designer and not the actual product of several years in design school. The latter would make me very, very sad.
looseroots says
eh….you should really do your research before you commit to an idea. (you should also proof-read your presentation material) but aside from the research your design has obvious flaws. assuming that you “gently” place this the basin into the tainted water source, what is stopping the bad water from seeping in? it appears that is perhaps a 1″-1.5″ space where the “good” water is contained in relation to gallons and gallons of “bad” water. all you have to do is look at the construction of a typical boat to understand the principles of buoyancy. my guess is that it would not take much for an individual to apply too much pressure to allow for an overflow.
AlienzExist says
There is no explanation of how the simple act of pushing down decontaminates the water. Since it only sticks out about an inch, any splash or ripple or wave in the water will run over the edge and into the clean water. You need a way to isolate the clean water, you need to find and explain the technology and process that cleans this water and, finally, you need to proof read or get someone to help you. Because, your first line is “Where are you belong to.” It is a glaring mistake and the first thing i read.
Radhika Seth says
It’s not necessary that a designer has to be proficient in English Grammar to get his idea across…..
jesus says
he doesn’t! but when the english is as bad as the ideas! …. or …. the ideas as bad as the english! ….
Steven says
Awesome concept Woo and Duck. Nice presentation as well.
For all, with exception of Declant…who are you? and what gives you the right to lash out against aspiring designers? where’s the link to your work?
Why not ask questions? Make suggestions? Explain surface tension, Jeff. Explain why there may not be enough bouyancy, looseroots. Recognize that everyone doesn’t speak/write in perfect English, AlienzExist.
Sure, if you have an opinion about something…jot it down. But do unto others….
Personally, I thought the header along with the image was slightly insensitive.
Jeff says
Surface tension is a force that a liquid exerts on itself at it’s surface.
You know how water drops have their particular shape, and not the shape of a square?
Surface tension pulls it into that shape.
The surface tension of water isn’t magically going to push it up through the filtration device. You actually need pressure and a force to push it through the filters, which the ’surface tension buoyancy’ of water isn’t able to provide.
And just because we’re not designers doesn’t mean we can’t critique. Do movie critics make movies? No.
Steve… who are you? And what gives you the right to lash out against my critique?
b0g3l says
interesting…. discussion
jesus says
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thanks for the laugh!
kisses
jin woo han says
문제점이 몇가지 보이긴하지만
정말 좋은 시도같네요
matt says
Does anyone else feel that the people of Africa are shamelessly exploited for our renderings of how things could be improved there? Don’t get me wrong, I believe Africa is in dire need of some good design solutions. I think I’m just growing tired of presentation work about Africa that contains polarizing googled images of African people, often poorly photoshopped. I feel it kind of makes light of the plight they face everyday, and could be more thoughfully done.
looseroots says
regarding the proof-reading comment, whether or not you think it is necessary, it is. its simply pointing out that you didn’t take enough time to refine your presentation. text is very important in presenting a design, as is research. this is a forum to present ideas and in return receive constructive criticism. I don’t believe anyone’s comments were insensitive or harmful.
mif991 says
Having a kid drink off this like an animal is bad marketing. If the design works, (and I doubt that, since it seems like wishful thinking) you are destroying the chance of success by marketing it this way.
Adam says
I agree – how disgustingly offensive
b0g3l says
I believe the designer doesn’t design it so it would be ‘disgustingly offensive’. Comments should be in forms of useful critics. bashing the idea uselessly won’t improve anything in any way
付 says
有点意思..
ZeroWing says
All your base are belong to us!
spandana says
hmmm… i think… its a good iddea, just needs some more work, evrything improves as time passes.
John McCloud says
Something neither the designers nor their critics address is water testing to determine if the device works or not. Without test results, both the designers’ claims and the critics counterarguments remain purely theoretical.
LOLOLOLOLOL says
Hello I come from Africa…I seem to be unable to afford clean water…Of course I can afford “nano-ceramic filters”…Why I have at least 100 of them lying around my shanty…I am glad my “nano-ceramic” filters can perform miracles…I truly appreciate the fact that they can remove particulate solids, heavy metals, pesticides/herbicides, bacteria and viruses and they never clog up…Also my “nano-ceramic” filters seem to work so fast and efficiently, normal filtering either takes ages because the pore size is so small or one must use a ton of filtering substrate to get the job done fast…Not so with “nano-ceramic” filters only a thin layer is required
FAIL!
Berti van Rensburg says
This device, does it also make ocean water drinkable? .
If I can find another 4 fellow crazies, I would like to take a walk around Africa and believe me the English language is pretty useless in Africa. The requirements of the nuts are French, Arabian, Portugese and Spanish. I can manage German, Afrikaans and English.
If it works and can double as a hat, let me know where I can get five.
aaaardwolf says
Might be good for the designers to also improve their photoshop skills before they try marketing this further.
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