This is a fantastic product, I hope that it comes to fruition.

I certainly applaud the idea and the effort that's gone into creating a copy of the design of the beetle's back.

As per usual there will be attendant problems associated with the technology that will become apparent[or has already done so] that will liimit it's use. One such problem might be the growth of fungus on the surface of the bottle at the site of water condensation which will need to be carefully removed.
Such is life.

Where can I buy a few of these?lol
I have often thought that it would be nice, because of its weight, if there was such a thing as "dehydrated water" this product if it comes to life would basically be just that. I WANT!

It would be interesting to see this adopted on a large scale. It could be the basis of terraforming barren areas like African Sahara and the expanding desert in South America.

Wow! This will be a huge boon to all humankind.

go to the NBD website. The bio of the co-founder is poorly written; "While this is his second stint at starting a company…" stint? and they have a gmail address listed for their main contact. Doesn't appear to be any money or experienced businessmen behind this.

It WILL be developed. Surprised they're not on Kickstarter.

a fully functional device will probably be banned from the general public...free energy has been banned, effective cheap cures have been cruelly suppressed...and will a very cheap a source of clean water be allowed..?i think no bcoz water like electricity and oil are resources which are used to control people and i guess you know what power hungry will do..

getting rid of water dependancies will free mankind in so many ways. This allows people to gather their own water from the air and not require municipal water. Land development potential alone will allow the population of plannet earth to double or quadrouple without ill effects. Removing water from the air will also assist in offsetting the greenhouse effect while providing free water as a bonus.

Bermuda grass as a leaf surface that collects water from the air. It would be yet another biological system to model. Perhaps this property could be bioengineered into the leaves of some of our crops

"has a leaf structure"

I read once that archeologists found an ancient Greek site in semi-arid Central Asia with water collectors. Shallow clay basins were filled with pyramids of loose fitting, irregular shaped rocks. The night chilled the rocks, which condensed water from the morning air. A pipe then transported the water to a storage tank. The village had several of them.

go to the NBD website. The bio of the co-founder is poorly written; "While this is his second stint at starting a company…" stint? and they have a gmail address listed for their main contact. Doesn't appear to be any money or experienced businessmen behind this.

.......and, the problem is where?? The CEO was invented because way back in the day, a brilliant engineer was the president of a company - busy producing incredible products and actually running the company - with no time to deal with the bureaucratic aspect of a company.

That said:
A) Failure is a very important experience - although success on the first try isn't necessarily bad :D

B) They can improve their image very quickly, if need be. Hover provides personal email addresses (I.E. alexander@riccio.com), about.me provides professional-looking pages, and offers fantastic business cards.

This device only works where the content of water vapor in the air is high -like the coastal area of the Namib desert.
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I don't see this working in very dry air, like in Sahara (or for that matter, in Southern California during summer).

I don't see this working in very dry air, like in Sahara

The Namib DESERT beetle referred to in the article seems to think otherwise.

And from what I gather the Namib is actually drier than the Sahara. Southern California in mid-summer is wetlands by comparison.

Very surprised at the lack of media attention to this huge development. Water supplies are in the realms of thousands of trillions of dollars annualy spent world-wide by everyone on the planet.

Water supplies are in the realms of thousands of trillions of dollars annualy spent world-wide by everyone on the planet.

Now THAT would be surprising as the gross world product is about 70-80 trillion dollars.
I'm sure not every one of us spends "thousands of trillions of dollars" per year on water. At least my water bill isn't nearly that size (or you must live Simbabwe, which had a hyperinflation of the Simbabwe-dollar of more than a trillion percent in 2006-2009 before they just dumped it altogether)

so you manufacture these with anti-bacterial plastics and put them on your mud-hut roofs - then siphon your collections into more anti-bacterial plastic bladders in hollow wall cavities or cellars underground. you create the same roofed structures to water your cattle and store your cattle feed in. then you go bigger again for your crop watering and grain storage.

Very surprised at the lack of media attention to this huge development. Water supplies are in the realms of thousands of trillions of dollars annualy spent world-wide by everyone on the planet.

oops..
Thousands of Billions of Dollars spent Annually by everyone combined.