Water Purifying Bottle

Michael Pritchard, from Ipswich (UK), has developed a water bottle that can purify water via a filter mechanism. The filter keeps away anything larger than 15 nanometers such as bacteria and viruses. It is not clear to me how other water pollutants are dealt with, in particular heavy metals and organic compounds.

With a price tag of 190 pound sterling, the bottle does not come cheap. But around 4000 liters of drinking water can be produced without replacing the filter.

(via digg)

Bulletproof Baby

"When stray bullets hit the pram but narrowly missed my son, I realised there was a gap in the market for a range of products to protect babies in today's increasingly violent society."

This is from bulletproofbaby.net , a company specializing in selling armor, bullet proof prams and chemical protection suits for babies and toddlers. It is definitely an unfulfilled gap in the market. The website is a little creepy. I guess it is supposed to make parents anxious and paranoid. The video shooting of the pram with a living baby (is that real?) is particularly distasteful.