iStraw Personal Water Filter Drinking Straw

Posted by Andrew Tingle on August 14th 2007 | 7 Responses

iStraw Personal Water Filter

Aimed squarely at the traveller, the iStraw has been designed to act as a personal water filter that contains an inbuilt micro filter to remove impurities and bacteria from your drinking water.

A convenient substitute to water purification tables, the manufacturers claim that this practical travel gadget removes up to 99.999% of all potentially harmful organisms – which can result in anything from upset stomachs to acute sickness and diarrhoea.

Water Filter Drinking Straw

In order to press home just how much of an issue this is the site offers the following, somewhat alarming statistics:

More than 50% of travellers report some kind sickness when travelling
Around 40% of travellers report Diarrhoea
Nearly 18% of travellers lose at least 1 day of their trip to illness
Almost 4% losing 4 days or more to illness

Of course you could just drink bottled water but, as the iStraw’s manufacturers rightly point out, the resulting waste – namely plastic bottles – invariably end up in land fill sites and so, whilst bottled water is often a safer alternative to tap water, the iStraw is a far more environmentally friendly solution.

It’s a great idea, though quite why it’s named the iStraw is a different matter altogether.

The iStraw Personal Water Filter retails for £19.99.

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iStraw Personal Water Filter Drinking Straw

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Response by Wormbrain | August 14th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

This straw actually seems to be a great idea, the more I think about it.

But iStraw? Does it play MP3s???
Response by Andrew Tingle | August 16th, 2007 at 12:46 am

Its great isn’t it. I know what you mean about the name though, initially I thought “what? An MP3 playing straw?!!” (something about an MP3 playing straw appeals to me though lol).
Response by Jason Cox | January 10th, 2008 at 2:10 am

Apparently it’s called iStraw because the straw is ‘intelligent’ – which makes sense i suppose as it does filter out the bacteria in dodgy water.
Response by Andrew Tingle | January 10th, 2008 at 4:45 am

I should have thought of that, Jason, does kind of make sense though one wonders whether its rather more to do with a bid to make the product sound a little more ‘hip’ (excuse my cynicism).
Response by Stephen Davis | April 12th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

Why was diarrhea capitalized?
Response by Andrew Tingle | April 12th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

Stephen,

I read a newspaper (Guardian / Independent) here in the UK most lunchtimes, time permitting, and on an alarming number of occasions and I too spot errors of this nature. Would you like me to cut out all the offending articles and mail them to you, say, once a month so you can write to them too?

Also, I noticed that the presenter on the radio station this morning made an error – perhaps I should send you the radio station’s address as well?

That said, I expect you barely have the time as, I note that you have spelt ‘capitalised’ with a ‘z’ (hinting that you may be American) so I readily assume that most of your time is taken up writing to a certain Mr Bush pointing out that he has the language capabilities of a chimpanzee.

I really ought to feel flattered that you have found the time, therefore, to add a comment here. If only my lift was as fulfilling and complete as your own, but, alas, I can but dream.