Portable Aqualris Purifies Water with the Sun

The AquaIris is a portable water purifier from industrial designer Talia Radford that wraps an intelligently low-tech system into a neat package.  Every water molecule that passes through the non-electric system is directly hit with the sun’s rays modulated to a UVC frequency able to purify water.

The purifier is intended for regions near the tropics and can be worn around the neck like a lanyard.  It comes with a removable re-usable filter that houses the converter crystals that do all the purification work.  Only 2% of the world’s water is drinkable and the issue of finding uncontaminated water in the tropics is increasingly difficult.  The AquaIris hopes to provide a simple tool to a complex problem and it recently won a James Dyson award to put the design into production.

[via DesignCrave]