The World's First
Self-Cleaning Bottle

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"The LARQ Bottle Cleans Up Your Nasty Tap Water With UV-C Light Tech"
- FORBES
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From UV-C breadboards to yoga studios worldwide

With the talented team at Radius, I designed and built the first generation of a product that gives us greater control over our health without chemicals or creating unnecessary plastic waste. It has found a great first market in the fitness and lifestyle categories.
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Integrating RayVio’s unique, efficient, and powerful Ultraviolet LED technology into a custom bottle paved the way for UV purified water products. With the talented team at Radius, I designed and built the RayVio's first four self-disinfecting water bottle prototypes, providing them a platform for marketing and testing the hydration purification technology.

I worked closely with industrial designers in envisioning a form factor for a durable, easy-to-use, and marketing-friendly prototype. I then designed the mechanical parts and assemblies, specified and laid out the the electronics, and created several looks-like, works-like prototypes.
  • ​Human factors
  • Mechanical layout and design
  • Ingress protection & water resistance
  • Thermal analysis and heat sink design
  • Reverse engineering
  • PCB design
  • Power management
  • Project management