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LARQ Bottle - Water Purification in a Self-Cleaning Bottle

Created by Justin Wang

No more stinky water bottles. LARQ harness UV-C LED light to eliminate 99.9999% of bio-contaminants from your water and bottle.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

QUARTZ CES tickets redemption instructions (Deadline Dec. 18th)
about 6 years ago – Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 04:48:06 PM

This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read.

#TBT to QUARTZ at CES + BackerKit Reminder
about 6 years ago – Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:57:53 PM

2018 has been a whirlwind so far! CES was AMAZING, and we have so much to share with you. But first, a friendly reminder about BackerKit. Make sure to check your inbox for a BackerKit survey from us. This is where we collect all the information we need to ship the QUARTZ Bottle out to you!

Now back to CES... We had the opportunity to meet talented individuals and companies doing innovative things in tech, chat with potential partners (we’ll have more to share on that soon!) and spread the word about the QUARTZ bottle.

We did our first Facebook Live update, and loved reading about QUARTZ in;

Cool Hunting: CES 2018 Favorites

Men’s Journal: 10 Best Gadgets Appliance and Other Gear From CES 2018

Forbes: Here are the Things You’ll Actually Want to Buy From CES

CNET: QUARTZ is a Water Bottle that Cleans Itself

The entire show was rewarding BUT our absolute favorite part of the week by far was getting to meet our backers! We had backers coming from all over the world - South Korea, Netherlands, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia – just to name a few. You are all so amazing – and getting the opportunity to talk to you, get your feedback and hear your stories made CES extra special.

We really cannot say thank you enough to our backers and supporters, so we’ll close out this update by simply saying it again – THANK YOU, YOU ARE AMAZING!

Drink brilliantly,

The QUARTZ Team

Viva CES Las Vegas!
over 6 years ago – Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 12:29:43 AM

We just wanted to share a little milestone. We have been hard at work getting the QUARTZ bottle ready to demo next week at CES and at CES ShowStoppers – the world’s gathering place for all things consumer electronics and beyond. We are extremely excited to showcase the innovative technology, design and mission that you, our backers and supporters, have believed in all along.

If you will also be attending, please be sure to stop by and say hi. We will be at:

CES

Sands Convention Center Level 2 (Tech West), Booth #43554

ShowStoppers

Wynn Hotel, Lafite Ballroom, Table C4

If you are not able to attend, do not fret! We will be updating our social media from CES all week AND doing a Facebook Live on January 12th at 9am PST. Be sure to tune-in for a live demo and CES update with our Co-Founder, Justin Wang!

Drink brilliantly, The QUARTZ Team

P.S. Send us questions you’d like Justin to cover and we’ll do our best to get to all of them during our Facebook Live session!

P.S.S Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to get updates from CES!

QUARTZ 2018 Updates
over 6 years ago – Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 12:55:16 AM

Happy New Year!

It's a time to start fresh, new beginnings and continued journeys. We realize that we have not sent an update in a little while, and thought that we would share a few of our new year's resolutions you:

Number 1: Deliver an awesome reusable, rechargeable, insulated water bottle that cleans itself and the water you put inside it to all our KickStarter backers and INDIEGOGO supporters. This is a no-brainer, and we are hard at work to make poolside lounging with your QUARTZ bottle a reality! Look for an update for our existing backers on Backerkit and manufacturing in the next 2 weeks. We are hard at work with setting up the back-end on Backerkit and working with our manufacturing partners.

Number 2: Hydrate. And finally put an end to our collective reliance on the single-use water bottle and stinky water bottles everywhere! Help us reach this resolution by supporting the QUARTZ Bottle. Now available for pre-order on INDIEGOGO - click here

In return for being such amazing supporters, you can get one QUARTZ Bottle for FREE. Here's how:

Log in to Indiegogo - you must be logged in to receive credit for your referrals.

Visit our campaign page where you’ll find your unique link to the right of our video by clicking on the "link" button. You will then see a pop-up with your unique link.

Use your unique link to share the QUARTZ Bottle campaign on social media or via email. *The '17782329' on the end will be different since it’s your Unique ID.

Here is how the referral works:

  • When someone clicks on your unique link, they are taken to the QUARTZ Bottle campaign page and a "Referral" is credited to you.
  • If 5 people you refer supports the QUARTZ Bottle, we will credit you with one FREE QUARTZ Bottle! Let us know if you have any questions and happy sharing!

We will keep you up to date on our progress. Cheers to a healthy, prosperous and hydrated 2018 for all!

Drink brilliantly,

The QUARTZ Team

P.S. What are your resolutions? Share them with us in the comments!

Thank you! + Post Campaign Updates
over 6 years ago – Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 11:25:44 PM

Thank you so much for making our campaign an incredible success!  We could not have done it without your support and input along the way.   We are truly beyond excited!   The whole QUARTZ team is more motivated than ever to deliver a great product to all of our backers.  This is just the beginning and we feel truly fortunate that we have your support throughout this creative journey.  Look for some regular updates in the coming months as we go through the manufacturing and fulfillment process.  

A few housekeeping items and updates:

  • We will be using Backerkit as our post-campaign survey and order management tool.  Due to the great feedback from our backers we decided this was the best platform to use to make sure we have all the information in order to properly fulfill all of the orders when the time comes.   Expect to see an email update on Backerkit in the next 3-4 weeks.  We need to give Kickstarter the proper time to wrap up all billing processes before migrating over to Backerkit
  • Order details and awards selection - through Backerkit you will be able to manage things like color selection, final rewards selection, enter/update your address, add-on additional sleeves and bottles.  You will receive an email regarding Backerkit signup in the next 3-4 weeks.  Please hold off on any questions regarding your pledge or any modification until then.   This will help us so much to streamline the process
  • CES tickets - If you pledged for a 4 QUARTZ Bottles - Family of Four and will be joining us at CES.  Look for an email over the next 24 hours.   We will be sending out information and instructions on how to redeem these tickets.  You will have until December 18th to redeem them.  After that the price go up and your vouchers can be applied for a $100 credit per ticket.  

Talk soon!

The QUARTZ Team