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Beyond being an interesting quip on business ideas, I love the interesting site design and the $2400 dream keyboard [1]. As for ice cubes for the $10 bottle of
by jmatt 17y ago
Beyond being an interesting quip on business ideas, I love the interesting site design and the $2400 dream keyboard [1].
As for ice cubes for the $10 bottle of water - the ice cubes need to be packaged and delivered with the water. Sounds like a good way to differentiate yourself from other brands of expensive water.
[1] http://store.artlebedev.com/computer_add-ons/optimus-maximus/ http://store.artlebedev.com/computer_add-ons/optimus-maximus...
- TeHCrAzY 17y agoCouldn't one just pop open a bottle, freeze some ice cubes, tell your customers you are using "ice made from brand of water" and ignore the expensive, prepackaged option from the supplier?
- ghshephard 17y agoWhen I was in Thailand, at a reasonably nice hotel in Bangkhok, when we ordered water the water "opened our bottles for us" - I immediately sent them back for unopened bottles. My friends thought I was a little paranoid, but we were all cautious about the water, so not that big a deal. I killed myself laughing when I saw the same scam being pulled by one of the characters in Slum Dog Millionaire. In other words - if it doesn't come with a factory seal, presume that it's not factory fresh.
- ugh 17y ago(You don’t actually know whether it was a scam.)
- ghshephard 17y agoOf course I didn't, I should have written "When I saw that _class_ of scam..."
- mos1 17y agoDemanding that the factory seal be intact is standard practice for traveling in the developing world. You definitely weren't paranoid. In areas that don't have bottled water from a brand I recognize, I drink nothing but fermented beverages (I've brushed my teeth with beer). I'd use brand-name ice cubes, if they were packaged in a known, trustworthy manner.
- rmc 17y agoYes, bottled water or bust is the standard mantra in the developing world. I rememeber one of our party trying to order a Margarita with no ice in a restaurant in Zambia once.
- billybob 17y agoCarbonated drinks are also safe - the acid kills pathogens. You can also easily carry water purification stuff - a bottle of polarpure lasts many many uses, and there are stirring wands that use UV light to kill germs. You may need to do a bit of research about what kills what, though.
- rmc 17y agoAnother way to purify water is to boil for for a few minutes.
- HeyLaughingBoy 17y agoCarbonated drinks are also safe - the acid kills pathogens What acid? There's no hydrogen in CO2.
- johnyzee 17y agoExcept in Slum Dog they actually glued the seal back on.
- shalmanese 17y agohttp://www.currentlyobsessed.com/2010/03/13/sell-ice-cream-not-cream-and-ice/ http://www.currentlyobsessed.com/2010/03/13/sell-ice-cream-n...
- KC8ZKF 17y agoI've been in parts of the world where I had to order bottled water, not for the taste, but because bottled water contains slightly fewer Escherichia coli than the local supply. Ice was out. Demonstrably pure ice sounds like a good idea.
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- leoc 17y agoI suspect that this article may be about Optimus Maximus as much as anything else.
- vl 17y agoArticle explicitly says: "For example, the idea of producing a keyboard with screens embedded in its every button costs somewhere around minus two million."