This Machine Turns Soda into Water

Imagine yourself a at huge party stacked with bottles of soda. Wait, there’s no water to be found. If only there was a way to turn soda into water. “The Real Thing,” created by artist Helmuts Smits, is a distillation machine that does exactly that.

The machine boils down Coca Cola and extracts the resulting water vapors. Those are then funneled into a separate glass container that stores the purified water. To achieve this, Smits worked with University of Amsterdam graduate student Martien Würdemann, as well as the university’s Synthetic Organic Chemistry Club.

Smits didn’t want to change the world with his machine, however. In fact, it was more so an art piece created to get people thinking. An average one-liter bottle of Coke is said to use nine liters of water in its creation. Smits told Dezeen that he just wanted to get people to laugh and think about what they put into their bodies.

Essentially, he’s reverse-Jesusing water.

H/T Design Taxi