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Portable Aqualris Purifies Water with the Sun

Portable Aqualris Purifies Water with the Sun

By Nicko Margolies on July 31, 2009

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]

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Nicko is a regular contributor to PSFK who grew up in DC and is now finishing college in Ohio. When he isn't writing, he's either looking for a full-time job after graduating or pursuing his passion for photography. Feel free to check out his photo-blog, Nicko's Big Picture.

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