• Ooho, the edible water bottle

   

  Skipping Rocks Lab, a team of design students from London Imperial College and Royal College of Art, recently revealed an invention that could help eliminate one of the world’s biggest environmental threats: plastic pollution. Called “Ooho”, the biodegradable blob bottle is made from a double gelatinous membrane of calcium chloride and brown algae. It can be safely thrown away – or even eaten. What’s more, anyone can make an Ooho at home without any fancy equipment. It was inspired by the structure of an egg yolk, and borrows its design from the “spherification” technique first used by the culinary industry to make fake caviar in the 1950s, and later for bubble tea. The main innovation of the Ooho is the size of the bubble. Still in its testing phase, Ooho still has some kinks – it’s not resealable, for instance – but the team is confident that someday soon it will be ready for mass production. I (Max Borka)

  Photo courtesy Skipping Rocks Lab

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover

  Water
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Water
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Adriaport

  Czechoslovakia's 1970s plan to build a tunnel to the sea

  Text: Rob Wilson
• FOUND

  FOUND

  China on Ice

  Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  The Trouble with Water I

  By Sagel & Krzykowski
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Tropical Island

  A Big Brandenburg Oasis

  Text: Max Borka
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Dam it All

  Hoover Dam and beyond
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Pink Pipe Dream

  Ludwig Leo‘s Umlauftank in Berlin

  Text: Gregor Harbusch, Jack Burnett-Stuart
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  The Trouble with Water II

  By Sagel & Krzykowski
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Oh Well

  Indian Stepwells

  Text: Rob Wilson
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  Holding Back the Waves

  Climate engineer Matthias Schuler achieves active solutions through passive measures

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Lonely as a Cloud

  Leandro Ehrlich's Cloud Collection
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Stream Lines

  Repurposed Dutch water defenses

  Text: Anneke Bokern
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Death on the Nile

  Watery pleasure dome at Hadrian's Villa
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  Underwater Love

  Chris Bosse on water, nature and Frei Otto

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  The Trouble with Water III

  By Sagel & Krzykowski
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Ooho

  The edible water bottle
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Kraftwerk Artwork

  Hydroelectric power station in Germany

  Text: Leigh Theodore Vlassis
• BOOKMARKED

  BOOKMARKED

  Bookmarked

  The Drinkable Book

  Text: Max Borka
• KLAUSTOON

  KLAUSTOON

  Klaustoon

  XV. Underwater Zoom* ('e la nave va...')

  Text: Klaus
• NEXT

  NEXT

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