$300 000 'Self-Filling water bottle' FAILURE

If I wanted to be rich (instead of being a scientist) it would be SOOOO much easier, especially if I didnt care about predating on people ignorance.

It does however get depressing sometimes seing someone trot out a clearly stupid idea (like fontus), get $300 000 of crowd funder money, and design awards. They then proceeded to work out that I was right all along, and eventually reinvent a very VERY poor ripoff of a commercial peltier dehumidifier.
.... and now... after all that..... they've just won a 'top 4 Austrian startup' award.

Words just kinda fail me at this point.

This video supported by donations on patreon, which for me is honestly a silver lining for this cloud. At least there are people out there who will support this kind of work!

if you place it under your bike seat it fills up with ball sweat.

[BoberFett]

They missed a period in their slogan. "never runs. dry."

[ChaosmanOne]

*Inserts finger up inside*
"OH! It is very, very, slightly wet!"

Oh my.

[orthoplex]

> wants source of power on a moving bicycle
> ignores mechanical power of actual bicycle

[MikeyG_f-of-x]

So the main take away is that with a quarter million dollars you can party in LA for about 3 months before you have move your lab back to Europe.
Got it.

[SunriseLAW]

2019 update: the product was successfully tested in an underwater environment.

[misterinvalid]

They actually just posted a new update that they're touting as 'proof of concept' because they got it tested by a 3rd party. It did manage to get a full water bottle after only 24 hours, and they provided a cool time lapse! Unfortunately, they forgot to mention that it was given 32v of power, was tested in a chamber that pushed the humidity up to 95%, and actually broke half way through the first test. But still, it worked! Right guys! Guys...?

[Phoenixx-vyln]

jokes on you, i lost faith in humanity way before this video

[therandomcast]

Take it everywhere: Like the middle of a dessert where it's like 0% humidity!!!

[Thunderft]

It beggars belief that after blowing $300 000 they came up with this joke, and then.... THEN got an award for a 'top 4 startup 2016' from the Austrian government!

[gaafts]

*The Self-Filling Water Bottle.* Never Runs Dry.

Just add water.

[emoryyuan]

I have an idea;
dehydrated water
-just add water.

[AnnikaOBrien]

Any place with enough humidity to fill that water bottle would also have rain. Just take off the lid and it'll fill faster.

[pantslizard]

Great scam...come up with a good sounding pitch... get $340, 000...party in cali for awhile, blame subcontractors for failing, move to EUROPE to further party, ...then...sober up once a month to type out a bullshit update for people...then get MORE MONEY to continue partying...

[robertrijkers]

Fontus is the 'self filling wallet'

[alexseioo]

So again this are just designers posing as engineers. And failing miserably.

[sbacon]

$300, 000 vacation to Los Angeles.
Pretty smart.

[JustAnotherTruckingPodcast]

My house got flooded in Christmas 2015, we had over 1ft throughout. We had industrial humidifiers in a room that was extremely hot and very, very wet and we only collected a 2 or 3 litres
a day.

[tamish]

I don’t think I signed up for “man fingers dehumidifier to prove the laws of thermodynamics”

[jacobbodmer]

Thunderfoot fingers machine - tries to get it wet.