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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 17:00 |
" A $3 gadget that promises to quench a user's thirst for a year without spare parts, electricity or maintenance.
By Jennie Yabroff
Newsweek
June 18, 2007 issue - With his rimless eyeglasses and natty suit, 35-year-old Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen looks like the kind of CEO who enjoys a fine red. Less likely is the image of him slurping that Bordeaux through a bright blue straw the size of a fat kazoo. But slurp he has, and not just wine: he's also tasted soda, pond water, and water from a lake in Nairobi through the gizmo. "You have to suck pretty hard at first to get it moist, but after that it's easy," he says of the LifeStraw, the portable water filter manufactured by his Danish company. "
.... Read the rest of this article from "MSNBC.com" at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19121634/site...
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