Machine Squeezes Drinking Water From Your Sweaty T-Shirt
Sweat Machine UNICEF Tasty I think the question here isn't whether you'd drink your own, but whether you'd drink someone else's. One company has designed a system, called Sweat Machine, to wring sweat out of clothes and turn it into potable water. The Sweat Machine heats and spins clothes to extract the liquid from them, then filters the extract with a membrane developed with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Yum. The filter is the most sophisticated part of the machine. It's "a bit like Goretex," one of the machine's designers, engineer and Swedish TV host Andreas Hammar, told the U.K.'s The Independent. Water vapor passes through the material easily, but it traps bacteria, salts and fibers from the clothes. Fans watching the Gothia Cup, an international youth soccer tournament held in Sweden, will get to see the Sweat Machine at work during the game. Players Tobias Hysén and Mohammed Ali Khan have...