Water pods continue to be a thing
A company called rOcean wants to save the ocean with reusable water pods. Its new device, the rOcean One, launched on Indiegogo today and is designed to eliminate the need for all sorts of bottled water, like bottled seltzer, bottled flavored water, and bottled mineral water. You can think of the device as a connected SodaStream with water filtration the hooks straight up to a user’s tap.
rOcean’s whole mission is to save the ocean, or at least that’s how they’re spinning it. Their companion iOS / Android app keeps track of how many water bottles users have saved and the company encourages users to re-use their pods. I was shocked to hear this, as the whole point of pods is usually to keep them proprietary, but rOcean says it wants users…
