Edible Water Balls Are The Future

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It’s often said that we should drink eight glasses of water a day. Now, we have to figure out how many balls it’s gonna take to stay hydrated.

Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, Guillaume Couche, and Pierre Paslier of Skipping Rocks Lab have created Ooho — an edible water sphere that’ll help you get your H20 whenever, wherever.

The water balls are made possible with help of a molecular gastronomy technique called spherification — which encapsulates water within an edible gelatinous membrane. The project was created to help replace the single-use plastic water bottles that are overtaking the planet.

The best part, is that they’re looking for beta testers of the product. So, go get some balls.

[link, via Mental Floss]

Turn Any Food Into Pop Rocks With Popping Sugar

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Food that doesn’t crackle in your mouth like Pop Rocks is kind of boring. Pop Sugar by Molecule-R is here to help.

Made from a carbon-dioxide infused sugar — the same found in Pop Rocks — sprinkle a little on anything that you’d like to make sweet and disturbingly crackly.

[link, via technabob]