Comment on Watching mouths fill up with towels

• dingus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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    • randombullet@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • raptir@lemdro.id ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ounces become pounds, bro.

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      • r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Then nutnfancy will talk about it for an hour.

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    • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is it really less weight though? If you have to carry in the towels and carry in the water, then combine them, isn’t that the same as carrying them already combined? Same thing with space. You’re compressing the towel but you still have to carry in the water.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m just talking here but wouldn’t you take in and take out everything when you go camping? What do you do with these towels now that they’re big after being used? If you carry them back then wouldn’t it just defeat the purpose of having a pill towel when you could just carry a regular small one?

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  • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Way to be a dampener.

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  • thrawn@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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  • nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yay! More single use disposable garbage!

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