If the iPhones, massively multiplayer online role-playing games, robot bartenders, and satellite navigation systems hadn’t already tipped you off that we’re living in the sci-fi future predicted quite some time ago, this latest gadget may push you over the edge. It’s a magic wand that you swirl around in water to purify the liquid, according to the New York Times.
If you want to get really technical, the wand’s not actually magic: It uses ultraviolet light to destroy the DNA of various kinds of water-ick like giardia and cryptosporidium. Thus crippled, they can’t reproduce and make you sick. But we like thinking of it as magic.
The wand, called the SteriPen JourneyLCD, costs $129.95 and weighs about 5 ounces, including two disposable batteries.
What kind of idiot wrote this? Oh yeah right, some jackass named James Norton, I’m not african, but i am of Caribbean origin and your heading on this is Ignorant,Irresponsible and lazy! First off, there are countless places in the world for whom water contamintaion is an issue. Take India for example..If there’s any place i would worry about getting sick it would be right here in the good ole ‘U S of A’…
Hey James ‘dummy’ Norton dont forget to take that ‘Wand’ on your next trip to Cabo or Bangladesh as well….
Chefartist, I’m trying to figure out if you’re just being a troll or if you really are that bent out of shape over the author not mentioning every place in the world that has issues with bacteria in the water. All I know is that I really, REALLY don’t want to drink the water wherever you live; look what it’s done.