Gallery: This Breakthrough Book About Water Safety Can Filter 4 Years' Worth of Clean Water
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The Drinkable Book looks like a coffee table book, but it's actually a full-on water-filtration system.
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The book's pages are made from special paper covered in silver nanoparticles.
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These nanoparticles kill bacteria. Think of it like poison for the poison found in your water.
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To use the system, you tear a page out of the book and slip it onto the grated filter box.
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As you pour water over the paper, the bacteria absorbs the silver ions which causes it to die.
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Each page can filter up to 100 liters of water, which is close to a 30 day supply.
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Right now, the book is still a prototype, but the team is hoping to have a commercial product sometime in 2015.
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