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Remedial Design: Industrial Designer Invents Better Solution for Drying Out Hydration Bladders
Designers of hydration bladders tend to focus on the product's active UX. Few pay attention to the "offline considerations." For users, the greatest hassle of a hydration bladder is storing it when not in use. Why? Because the interior, which is impossible to access for cleaning, must be dried out completely before stowage. Skipping this step can lead to both mold growth and a funky smell/taste the next time you use it.Hikers' forums are awash in hacks for how to dry out a hydration bladder: Hang it in a certain way, stuff it with paper towels, hold the interior open with a whisk, create an interior frame by bending a metal wire hanger, et cetera. None of the solutions are elegant and can literally take days to achieve full dryness.Industrial designer and outdoorsman Peter Williams came up with a better way. His DRYE (Don't Ruin Your Equipment) Fan mates to a hydration bladder via a bayonet-mounted adapter ring. The USB-rechargeable fan, along with the included hook and drying wire, then dry the bladder out in a matter of hours; specifically, it takes about an hour per liter of the bladder's capacity. Now for the annoying part: Williams has had to contend with the variety of apertures used by different manufacturers of hydration bladders. Currently, his DRYE system is designed to mate with CamelBak Crux, CamelBak MIL SPEC Antidote and Gregory 3D bladders; he's currently working on adapters for the Gregory 3D, Osprey, Salomon, Hydrapak and Platypus brands.The CamelBak-ready version of DRYE is currently up on Kickstarter, with 27 days left to pledge at press time. Buy-in starts at just $30.
Designers of hydration bladders tend to focus on the product's active UX. Few pay attention to the "offline considerations."
For users, the greatest hassle of a hydration bladder is storing it when not in use. Why? Because the interior, which is impossible to access for cleaning, must be dried out completely before stowage. Skipping this step can lead to both mold growth and a funky smell/taste the next time you use it.
Hikers' forums are awash in hacks for how to dry out a hydration bladder: Hang it in a certain way, stuff it with paper towels, hold the interior open with a whisk, create an interior frame by bending a metal wire hanger, et cetera. None of the solutions are elegant and can literally take days to achieve full dryness.
Industrial designer and outdoorsman Peter Williams came up with a better way. His DRYE (Don't Ruin Your Equipment) Fan mates to a hydration bladder via a bayonet-mounted adapter ring.
The USB-rechargeable fan, along with the included hook and drying wire, then dry the bladder out in a matter of hours; specifically, it takes about an hour per liter of the bladder's capacity.
Now for the annoying part: Williams has had to contend with the variety of apertures used by different manufacturers of hydration bladders. Currently, his DRYE system is designed to mate with CamelBak Crux, CamelBak MIL SPEC Antidote and Gregory 3D bladders; he's currently working on adapters for the Gregory 3D, Osprey, Salomon, Hydrapak and Platypus brands.
The CamelBak-ready version of DRYE is currently up on Kickstarter, with 27 days left to pledge at press time. Buy-in starts at just $30.
