Drinking vessel
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals often forget to track their daily liquid consumption, such as water, due to busy lifestyles, and existing solutions are not integrated into drinking vessels in a user-friendly and sanitary manner, lacking promotion of continued hydration.
Innovation Solution
A drinking vessel with an integrated system featuring colored elastomeric bands that move along the exterior surface as the liquid is consumed, allowing users to track intake and reset easily, while also being removable to remind hydration throughout the day.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a recording procedure is implemented to track liquid consumption, then consumption tracking capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The recording system is segmented into simple, discrete elastomeric bands that can be individually moved or removed. Each band represents a discrete unit of consumption tracking, allowing users to track consumption through simple physical manipulation rather than complex electronic interfaces or written records.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service tracking where the user directly manipulates the elastomeric bands to record consumption. The bands are designed to be easily moved by hand along the exterior surface, allowing users to autonomously track their own consumption without requiring external recording devices or complex procedures.
2Ease of operation
If the recording system is integrated into the drinking vessel, then ease of recording is improved, but cleaning difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The elastomeric bands are designed to be removable from the drinking vessel exterior. Users can take the bands off, clean the vessel surface completely, and then reposition or reset the bands afterward. This extraction capability allows thorough cleaning of the vessel while maintaining the recording function.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows users to discard used elastomeric bands (by removing them from the vessel) and recover them for resetting or replacement. This enables complete separation of the recording mechanism from the vessel body during cleaning cycles.
3Adaptability or versatility
If elastomeric bands are made removable for tracking, then user engagement is improved, but loss of substance increases
Solution Approach 1:
The elastomeric bands serve multiple functions: they track consumption when positioned on the vessel exterior, and they can be removed to serve as portable reminders or worn on the wrist. This multi-functionality increases user engagement while providing a rationale for the bands to be retained and reused across different contexts.
Solution Approach 2:
The removable bands provide continuous feedback to users about their consumption progress. When removed and worn on the wrist, they provide portable feedback that reinforces hydration habits. This feedback mechanism encourages users to retain and reuse the bands rather than discard them.
Data Source
AI summary
A drinking vessel for determining an amount of a liquid which is consumed and which includes a first portion, which has a base portion and a vertically, upwardly extending wall, and wherein the vertically upwardly extending wall defines an internal cavity, and the exterior-facing surface thereof defines a multiplicity of continuous, circumscribing, longitudinally spaced grooves; and a multiplicity of continuous, elastomeric members are individually received in the respective spaced grooves and which can be moved along the exterior-facing surface of the drinking vessel so as to permit a user to readily account for the amount of fluid they have consumed during a given time interval.