Product Description
Drink clean water all day with this 17-oz. Smartech LARQ self-cleaning bottle. The USB port and cable enable easy charging, while the digital purification technology uses UV-C LED light to neutralize up to 99.99 percent of germs. This Smartech LARQ self-cleaning bottle has a self-cleaning mode that activates every 2 hours for hassle-free decontamination.
Dimension
Product Height : 9.6 inches
Product Width :2.7 inches
Product Depth :9.6 inches
Product Weight :0.84 ounces
Features
16.9-oz. capacity So you have enough water on hand.
Stainless steel material Resists leaks.
Built-in UV-C LED Intelligently turns on every 2 hours to keep your water and bottle fresh.
Double-wall insulated To keep water cold for 24 hours and hot for 12 hours.
What's Included
LARQ Water Purification Thermal Bottle
Reviews
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LARQ
The LARQ self-cleaning water bottle impressively achieves a 99.9% water purification using UV light, ensuring a high-quality, great-tasting water experience. Its innovative technology sets it apart, making it a reliable choice for those who prioritize cleanliness and taste in their hydration.
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Great for international travel
I was able to travel internationally with it appreared to work great! I usually get unwell when travelling but I believe ensuring clean water this time around avoided any issues. Watch out for drops, it fell onto concrete and dented the side after 1 week of use.
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Revolutionary Water Bottle
This water bottle is the Tesla of water bottles. It is self-cleaning, sleek, and modern. Everyone always compliments this bottle and wonders why the cap has an incognito glow when it cleans itself. Never going back to another water bottle!
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No smell 1 week.
After using the LARQ for a week, I am impress with this thermal bottle. I filled up the LARQ with fountain water from the park about 2 or 3 times and let it do its “UV light” thing. No smell the next day. For the next 5 days I’ve filled it up through different source and no funky bottle smell. It works. From what I’m reading about the UV light technology I could actually fill the LARQ with river or lake water and have no issues drinking it BUT it would still have the sediment in the water. I’ll be testing this out on my next camping trip *** it does have a stainless steal smell taste but goes away in about a day*** Definitely would recommend this to friends and family.
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Good buy
Bottle still works months later. Easy to use. East to clean. Would recommend
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Great water purification technology!
The LARQ water purification thermal bottle uses UV-C technology to eliminate 99.9999% of bacteria in your water and keeps the water bottle smelling fresh all the time. It is very easy to use. Just plug in the cap to the provided USB cord and charge it. The charge lasts for up to 1 - 2 months. After filling it with cold water, you can tap the button on the cap and it goes through a one minute purification cycle to clean your water and bottle. This would be the normal cleaning process for trusted water sources. If you are using an untrusted water source you can tap the cap twice to activate Adventure Mode, which runs it through a three minute cycle to further eliminate bacteria. It also does a self-cleaning mode where it cycles on every two hours during the day to keep your water and bottle fresh at all times. If you are not using the bottle for a while, you can also set the travel lock to keep it from cycling on and save your battery. I’m happy to have this LARQ bottle as I feel confident I can use it all day with cold tap water and know it has been purified. I used to buy a lot of bottled water, particularly when traveling and I didn’t have access to filtered water or just didn’t know how safe the tap water was. With the LARQ bottle, I now feel I can eliminate bottled water and I’m happy to reduce all that extra waste in the environment! I got the Monaco Blue bottle, which is an attractive color of blue and looks good on my desk at work. It keeps my water nice and cold all day long while I am at work, as it will keep your water cold for 24 hours. I got the 17 oz bottle, which is the perfect size for me to use while at work. I plan to buy the larger 25 oz bottle also to use for traveling. If you are a water drinker and are tired of spending money on bottled water and adding to environmental waste, this is definitely the bottle for you! Also if you travel and often have untrusted water sources, the LARQ will give you piece of mind when drinking water while on the road.
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Favorite Water Bottle
I love my Larq bottle. The water always tastes fresh and it gives me piece of mind knowing it is killing off most bacteria from forming.
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Water tastes great; exterior scratches easily
## Design The LARQ Bottle PureVis has a nice, clean design. The first thing I noticed is that the bottle definitely has some weight to it at around 13.5 ounces. The double-insulated wall helps keep your water cold for extended periods of time and also helps prevent the bottle from “sweating” on the exterior. I was disappointed to find that there is no carrying strap or hole for a carabiner on the bottle, which makes it a little less convenient to carry. However, there are first party and even third party sleeves available. I also found that the exterior of the bottle seems to scratch very easily after brushing my bottle up against a wall. You can see the scratch in the attached photos. ## Performance The cap contains a UV-C LED light that shines down on the water to sanitize it. After filling the bottle and placing the cap back on top, simply tap the button on the cap to initiate a 1-minute light cycle (double-tapping the button initiates a 3-minute cleaning cycle for a more thorough cleaning, what LARQ refers to as “Adventurer Mode”). The bottle will automatically perform a 10-second cycle every two hours to help maintain the water and bottle’s cleanliness. The manufacturer notes that adding ice or fruit to the bottle can reduce the effectiveness somewhat as the UV-C light can’t reach every nook and cranny to sanitize it. You can give the bottle a shake while the cycle is active to help make sure everything in the bottle gets exposed to the UV-C light. Therefore, non-clear liquids (such as coffee) are not ideal as the light can’t really penetrate them. It's hard to test the effectiveness of the UV-C light without lab testing, but based on day-to-day usage, the bottle hasn't developed a musty smell or moldy spots like normal water bottles typically do if they're not regularly washed. I’m a little lazy about keeping my water bottles clean, so I’m very happy to have a water bottle that cleans itself. The manufacturer still recommends washing the bottle from time to time, but it's nice not having to worry about it after every single use. Additionally, I feel a little more confident filling the LARQ water bottle from random water fountains as I know most bacteria and viruses are presumably neutralized. ## Battery Life The battery recharges with a Micro USB cable (included) and virtually any USB charger (not included). It takes about an hour to charge and can last up to a month when using the “normal” 1-minute sanitation cycle. ## Summary The self-cleaning technology in the LARQ water bottle makes it ideal if you’re a little lazy like me and don’t wash your reusable water bottle as often as you should. It’s also handy if you get your water from some iffy sources from time to time and want to make sure it is bacteria and virus free.
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Purified Water and Sanitized Bottle is a Winner
The Larq bottle is a traditional water bottle in terms of its construction – aluminum with a vacuum-sealed wall to provide insulation to keep drinks cool for hours at a time – but with the added feature of UV light, which not only allows you to treat your water for purity, but also keep the bottle clean when not in use from microorganisms that tend to grow in other traditional bottles. The design is sleek, and the dual blue colors make it subtle, yet eye-catching. The bottle holds 17 ounces of your favorite non-carbonated drink, though there are larger sizes available. This bottle is better suited for in-home or in-office use where access to refill the bottle is readily available, and likely not as well suited for hikes or the gym solely due to the 17-ounce size. If you’re looking for something for on-the-go, I highly recommend a larger bottle. The lid screws securely to the bottle and seals the bottle well with the built-in silicone seal. Under the lid sits the UV LED lamp, which is powered by a rechargeable battery also built into the lid (short cable included, no charging brick included). Sterilization of the bottle occurs every 2 hours automatically, which sounds like would run the battery down, but specs claim the battery will survive for 4-8 weeks with normal use between charges. I haven’t had the device long enough to fully test this duration, so I’m running off of Larq’s official numbers. Larq’s testing states there is a 99.9999% reduction in microbes in the bottle with the UV sterilization, meaning the days of trying to jam a bottle brush into your bottle to clean it, or the days of that musty bottle smell are gone (since it’s the bacteria that cause the smell). After adding water, you can manually trigger one of two water purification modes – “normal” or “adventure” mode. In normal mode, generally used for trusted water sources like a tap in your house or office, the UV light cleans your water for 60 seconds during which the LED indicator light on the lid will indicate cleaning is in progress. In adventure mode, the UV sterilization will run for 3 minutes, providing a longer cleaning for drinking out of less trusted sources. Man, if we only had that for all those times we drank out of the garden hose as a kid… If you’re storing the bottle longer term or traveling with the bottle and don’t need the constant every-two-hours self-cleaning mode, you can activate the “travel lock” feature, which turns off the cleaning until you reactivate it. All mode selections are made with a button on the top of the lid. The two cons to the bottle as I found it surround the USB charger on the lid. First, Larq chose the quickly-dying micro-USB connector, when USB-C is taking over the USB charging world. Every time a new device is introduced to the market with micro-USB it means I have to keep another cable that much longer. It really is time for the market to shift wholesale to USB-C. Second, there is no cover or rubber plug for the USB charger on the lid, making the bottle non-submersible. If you drop it into a sink full of water or a river you’re hiking near, the likelihood of damaging the electronics is high since water will immediately enter the charger port. There is no indication in the instructions or boxing that there is any level of IPC waterproof standards. For the curious, no, you can’t fire up the UV light when it’s not on the bottle. A built-in safety feature will reduce the light’s intensity to one that is non-harmful to the eyes for the duration of the cycle if removed from the bottle or started without the lid on it. Sorry, kids. Overall, the bottle is nice. The battery adds some weight to what an otherwise standard bottle would weigh, though the weight of the bottle body itself balances out this extra weight, thus it’s not top heavy. I like the option of having my bottle clean & smell-free at all times, as well as being able to give an extra treatment to the water from a public drinking fountain or elsewhere. I really wish, however, they had placed a USB-C port on the device.
