If you’re one of those people who feels like we can’t possibly be in 2020 because “2020 just feels like a fake year,” then this new futuristic invention may be just the thing to push you over the edge and into full-blown Back To The Future 2 type territory.
Though we don’t yet have the proper technology to reheat french fries without making them soggy, we do have edible water bottles. Well, not bottles exactly, but edible water orbs. Feel like you’re in the future yet?
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Ooho is an invention of a company called Skipping Rocks Lab.
According to Notpla’s website , Ooho is one of many products that the company has created using their own biodegradable material called Notpla:
“Ooho is a flexible packaging for beverages and sauces. It’s made from Notpla, our material combining seaweed and plants.”
” [It is] Edible and biodegradable. The alternative to plastic”
“Ooho biodegrades in 4-6 weeks,” the product description continues, “Or you can just eat it, making it ideal for on the go consumption.”
Though a number of different packaging products can be made from Notpla, Ooho has the greenest impact.
The company sells Ooho liners, sauce packets, orbs for cocktails, and most notably, simple orbs filled with water to replace plastic water bottles.
Notpla is edible because it is made from seaweed.
“Notpla is made from one of nature’s most renewable resource, brown seaweed,” its description reads, “Growing up to 1m per day, it doesn’t compete with food crops, doesn’t need fresh water or fertilizer and actively contributes to de-acidifying our oceans.”
Notpla is completely biodegradable, and the machine that makes it wil be available for other companies to lease as early as 2021.
Skipping Rocks Lab currently has a number of other items in production such as food wrap, industrial product packaging, and even food netting .
With products like Ooho, we truly are living in the future.
h/t: Notpla
