Water Shade!
Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by Roy Jones in Design, Hi-Tech, High Tech's Future
This project is completely apolitical. It IS literally a gate of water. This project goes by the name of “Water Shade” and keeps a shield of H2O around the fruit it is sworn to protect. It’s both a dish and a cover, working with water to keep freshness in and everything larger than Oxygen OUT! Designer Yitu Wang doesn’t want to keep you from your delicious apples though, so there’s a built in detector that sees your hand in approach, and thus is does desist.
Moisture is locked in. Freshness is locked in. Flies are locked out. Dust is locked out. And when you come up and decide you’d love to have a strawberry, as soon as your hand gets near, the streams in that area stop. You’ll remain dry. How very keen!
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Rebecca
Jul 11th, 2010
Where can I buy a Water Shade ?
Dennis
Jul 12th, 2010
I want TWO!!!
Lilith
Jul 13th, 2010
It sounds nice, but I’m a little skeptical.
randy
Jul 13th, 2010
Seriously I want one… if you have a prototype…I even want that! I can’t handle disappointment!
Engineer
Jul 13th, 2010
There’s no way this can work. The amount of water needed to create a constant stream like that around the outside of the fruit would require a base at least a foot tall.
lee
Jul 13th, 2010
I have some issues with this design’s claims. first freshness, as depicted apple and bananas are auto-ripeners, meaning they release the ethylene gases that make them get ripe and eventually stale/mushy/over-ripened. next is bugs, if the water is to be this beautiful water shield then the water at the point the size of a fly would not have enough momentum to push the fly along the waters initial trajectory. instead it would fall in the perimeter of the shield, eww.
Ed
Jul 15th, 2010
I have a question Yitu,; Falling watet. Does that ripple upwards when a finger touches it?
Brian
Jul 15th, 2010
I’m pretty skeptical of this, especially for ecological reasons. I wonder which generates more waste – a sheet of plastic wrap or the power required to keep this contraption operating?
Maxus
Jul 15th, 2010
Yeah, this certainly seems like a good idea on paper and a wet mess anywhere else.
If you want, pretend saran wrap is like, frozen sheets of water, man.
Physicist
Jul 16th, 2010
Won’t work. Physics FAIL I am afraid.
I tried to make a fountain like this once as a kid. Alas you can’t make a fast moving thin water film in a compact device. Turbulence and variations in pressure lead to splashing. So you would need several inches of water even just to cleanly capture the stream. Your design will just get a wet table and a need to refill every few minutes.
Plus water has to be moving fast to be an unsupported thin film and not break up into streams. Your miniature pump won’t have anywhere near enough power.
You could maybe fool people and make something like this by embedding it in a desk. The desk could hide the required powerful pump and allow a sufficient recess to capture the water. It still probaby wont work with water (but maybe with supercooled liquid helium).
Simply put the laws of hydro dynamics means water can’t flow like your drawn images. Even if it did (as mentioned above) this does not lock Freshness in. Likely the mist (assuming you are running at room temperature and pressure) will speed up degradation. Try keeping apples in an open paper bag and a closed damp plastic and see which goes off first.
What is calorific by the way?
Corrine
Jul 16th, 2010
This seems like a big waste of water..
I hope this is never actually created for the sake of everyone out there that doesn’t have clean water..
Hannah
Jul 23rd, 2010
Why don’t you just keep your fruit in a bucket or a large bowl of water?
Brennus
Jul 23rd, 2010
All this criticism – you’d think people would notice at least one of the tags: “High tech’s future” or “design” before they go off, half-cocked. Instead they just rant and rave how it won’t work.
hauntedgraffiti
Jul 24th, 2010
i agree with the physicist. beyond what’s physically wrong with the design, it would be a very costly way of lessening the shelf life of any fruit within it.
the 80’s called. they want their invention back.
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Jul 25th, 2010
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Kacper
Aug 2nd, 2010
Great design! I would like to buy one