Comment on Watching mouths fill up with towels

FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The scale is off in the photo. Here’s a video of someone showing how they work and the “pills” aren’t pill sized.

  source

  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t turn on the sound while I’m at work so maybe it explains it…but doesn’t the idea of adding water to the towel to expand it defeat the purpose of a towel? Like if I’m wiping up a spill, a soaking wet rag isn’t going to be super helpful. I guess it depends what you want to use it for. Maybe I’m just caught up on the world “towel” when it’s really more like an expandable wet wipe. Idk.

    source

    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah it seems to be an expandable wet wipe, where you have to provide the wet. Not sure how this is more useful than a pack of wet wipes.

      source

      • randombullet@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The ultralight community would pay $500 just to save 2 oz.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think the key is to use a few drops of water or use the water you’re soaking up to activate it. Like if you took a solar shower while backpacking and wanted to dry off it would activate when you started wiping yourself dry with it which would make it easier to towel with which would increase the rate at which it activates in a positive feedback loop.

        If you only consider the context of the demonstration it sucks but if you consider you might have a pot/pan that has some water on it still that you’d like to dry off before putting it into your pack it would activate from that water too right? If anything the fact that they’re so thoroughly dehydrated probably means they can pick up more water than another towel of similar size and weight.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Less weight and saves space. Note how in the post image it mentions they’re good for hiking, weight and space are a big thing when packing for hiking.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you used it to wipe up a spill you wouldn’t have to wet it first, just throw it on the spill and it’ll soak up the liquid, then when it starts expanding from that you can use it to wipe more thoroughly.

      source
    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Way to be a dampener.

      source
    • thrawn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I bring these around during travel because sometimes restrooms don’t have towels and I don’t want to touch the wet handle to get out. Pretty niche and I only go through a few a year but it’s better than wet public restroom door handles

      source
    • nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      these are wet wipes to freshen ones hands before a meal. restaurants will often give these out with little warm water

      source
  • whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yay! More single use disposable garbage!

    source
• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re pretty big though. You’d have to be swallowing something the size of a toilet tank cleaning tablet.

  source

  • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Good news everyone: It’s a suppository!”

    source
• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If I find myself at Coachella somehow I’m taking one myself.

  source

  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Id have have two just to feel ‘normal’

    source
  • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Understandable.

    source