2019 / Product Design

OMI

OMI appears as a portable water filtration attachment, using a bottle-mounted tube system to improve access to cleaner drinking water through a compact, familiar format.

Category
Tech
Status
Concept / Product Study
Role
Industrial Design
Context
Water Access
Focus
Industrial DesignWater FiltrationHumanitarian Design
OMI

Water filtration designed for the bottle already in hand.

Context

A water product for everyday scarcity.

The visual story frames OMI around communities where safe drinking water cannot be assumed, using familiar bottles as the platform for a more accessible filtration object.

Design Response

A filter that attaches to common bottles.

The concept uses a tube-like filter module and drinking interface, allowing filtration to happen through a portable object rather than a fixed infrastructure product.

Details

Bottle-mounted filter

Portable drinking interface

Layered filtration diagram

Technical Notes

Traps larger dirt and sediment

Filters smaller bacteria and impurities

Improves taste and smell of water

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