How To Make Water Coolers Better
If you like warm and cold water at your fingertips and are distrustful of Brita and their pitcher filter chicanery, or if you work in an office, you probably have one of these:
The model above has both cold and lukewarm water.
I’m really glad our universities are really pushing the envelope on what engineers are capable of these days.
Below is a diagram of how such a marvel works:
Now the model I have has ice cold water and very hot water, for tea or whatever. So it’s similar to the diagram above except there’s a heated reservoir next to the refrigerated reservoir. I get mine from Sparkletts but there’s other companies like Arrowhead and probably even a few others.
What’s interesting is that none of them offer anything divergent. They all offer the cold/hot or cold/lukewarm models, in white or black, but none of them really have a standout product or feature that would make you choose one over the other.
Here is how I propose to change this:
I call upon those cowards to shake up the system a little bit.
Why not a third nozzle?
I can picture the Sparklett’s engineers, still sweaty and back-patting from their work on the hot/cold model.
A third nozzle? What for? Medium cold water?
No not medium cold water. For flavored water, like Kool-Aid.
I would only probably only drink the lemonade one since I don’t like super sweet drinks, but you are all free to knock yourself out with Wild Jungle Berry or whatever you like.
Here’s how it would work:
You take small tablets, similar to the cakes you see in urinals:
Now you put those tablets in a tray just above the On/Off valve and push it in and latch it closed. Like the urinal cake, the job of these tablets is to slowly dissolve so that whatever passes through them is changed.
When you order your water they allow you to select a certain number of flavor tablets in a few different flavors.If you want more, they charge you a dollar or two per tablet. They can partner with Kool-Aid and Tang and so on to give customers a flavor they’re used to.
Anyhow, I thought of this while I was using a urinal at a bar last night.
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thank god you have a blog
I bet you any amount of money someone is going to steal and market this idea…and we’ll see it in Target within a few months…hell weeks.
im loving this blog…
my biggest problem with the water cooler at my office is that it reminds me that i’m at my office. it would be way better if they replaced those feeble little cups with SOLO cups so you could almost trick your body into thinking its at a party.
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I thank you guys for the nice words. I’m going to try and share my groundbreaking ideas more often. Adnoxious, your blog is great.. I read the whole thing today.
It appears Urinal Tablet Drink can be brought before Shark Tank, on ABC. All five shark love Urinal Tablet Drink long time.
wtf you are all bk