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The amount of smart tech gadgets on the market never ceases to amaze me. As I spend my days constantly scrolling through them and browsing new releases, I wonder, how smart can these things get? Incoming me discovering the newest wave in smart water pitchers. How on earth can a pitcher be smart? Does it turn water into wine?
Curiosity nonetheless got the best of me and I had to see for myself what this smart water pitcher, invented by LARQ—a Shark Tank darling—was all about. As soon as I got the picture that the pitcher can clean itself, provide the purest water possible with Nano Zero filtration, and even track water consumption, I looked at my old pitcher, a Brita, then into the trash can it went—I was determined to learn how to live healthier with LARQ's Pitcher PureVis.
All bacterias be gone.
I still remember cringing at the sight of bacteria mold at the bottom of my previous pitcher, less than one month into its use. LARQ's water pitcher puts that bacterial breeding ground to rest, once and for all, with its magical PureVis wand that automatically abracadabras any bio-contaminant away with disinfecting UV-C LED light. It's really a marvel to look at: Though the self-sanitization starts on its own every six hours, sometimes I'd press the top of the wand to activate it regardless just to see the blue light gleaming rhythmically inside the glass, putting on a light show while finishing off all stench-causing, mold-spawning bacterias, even the naturally-occurring ones. You can clean the pitcher by hand when the power is running low, of course, but that seldom happens—I only needed to clean it in the dishwasher once in the past six months.
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Water has never tasted so good.
Traditional filters often trap unsolicited microbes from batches of water being poured through, and those germs can then spread like wildfire, damning you regularly with weird-tasting water and filter replacements. That all ends with LARQ, whose pitcher's plant-based carbon filter uses Nano Zero technology to fish out chemicals like chlorine, lead, mercury, copper, as well as more wicked particulates like HAA5, VOCs, or PFAS/PFOS (I honestly don't know what they are but know for sure they can't be good). That meticulous filtration helps curb bacterial growth which, if does happen, can then be easily taken care of by the pitcher's automatic purification. This two-stage defense line against anything that shouldn't be inside your body ultimately makes the water being poured out pure, fresh, and worry-free, sip after sip, gulp after gulp.
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Track your progress and impact on the world.
After almost six months of using LARQ's pitcher, I can proudly say I have reduced over 10 pounds of plastic waste, about 45 pounds of carbon footprint, and saved almost $400 on Aquafina, Fiji, or Dasani—bottled water, basically. (Now where's my gold star?) These statistics are only a glimpse of what the pitcher's smart sensor wand can keep tabs on and show through LARQ's smartphone app. It can also track household water intake (in the last six months I've consumed at least 32 gallons of pure water, which is not too shabby), monitor filter life, and activate PureVis cleaning. The overall experience is like having a Duolingo for drinking water, motivating those like me who strive to meet drinking certain liters of water per day to stay hydrated. Together, LARQ's pitcher and its app have done a real number on my drinking habit for the better, like taking a great first leap forward that any WebMD doctor recommends to a healthier lifestyle: Just drink more—and in LARQ's case, better—water.
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Photography by Timothy Mulcare. Prop styling by John Olson for Halley Resources.
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