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The bottle cap has a laser sensor that measures the water level in the bottle. When you drink all the water, there is a Bluetooth chip (also in the cap) that no
by umvi 6y ago
The bottle cap has a laser sensor that measures the water level in the bottle. When you drink all the water, there is a Bluetooth chip (also in the cap) that notifies the app on your phone, which phones home and records that you drank a bottle of water into a DB (apparently a blockchain). The company then has a deal with some other company that for every bottle of Rebo you drink, it funds the collection of plastic waste collection.
I admit they chocked it full of too many buzzwords to make it sound cooler than it is, but at least the concept sort of makes sense compared to the hot air the Nikola CEO blew.
- giarc 6y agoThere are a ton of companies doing this "Toms shoes" model (buy one, give one) and it doesn't need to be complex. "For every bottle of water you purchase, we fund the clean up of 1000 bottles". Why bring lasers into it?
- ChuckMcM 6y agoBecause they couldn't figure out how to credibly add "Machine learning" or "AI" and lasers was the next buzzword on the "What's hot" list?
- microtherion 6y agoAnd the EPA would not approve mounting lasers on sharks' heads.