The Drinkable Book

Elegant, affordable tech, able to transform the world with grace and common sense, is the ultimate in industrial design as seen in the Drinkable Book from Waterislife.com  a water filtration system in a form factor for the ages.

A new project from the Water Is Life organization is looking to simplify the purification process with a high-design solution. The Drinkable Book, as it’s called, looks like something you’d keep on your coffee table, but it’s actually a full-on water purification system.

Each page is its own little filter that can clean up to 100 liters of water (that’s around a 30-day supply). This means each book can provide a single person with up to four years of clean water. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and University of Virginia developed a special kind of paper that’s coated in silver nanoparticles, which kill bacteria. “Some socks use silver nanoparticles to prevent fungus from growing on athletes’ feet,” explains chemist Theresa Dankovich, the project’s lead scientist who has been researching this process since 2008.

So drink up, with luck, it will be on the house for people in developing countries who have never tasted the wonders of truly clean water.

Awesome without question. :)