This water bottle is also a foam roller… and a grenade?

The Mobot missed its calling. In a different time, it would have been the perfect late night infomercial product. It’s the love child of a Klean Kanteen, a Trigger Point foam roller and one of your creepy uncle’s flea market finds.

Of course, in 2015, it became a bizarrely successful Indiegogo campaign.

Thanks to our friends over at Outside, the Mobot Big Bertha (pictured above) was brought to our attention. Sadly, Mo Farah has nothing to do with this Nalgene on steroids (see what we did there!).

The design of the Mobot is reminiscent of a giant-sized hand grenade, specifically the British-made 36M Mills bomb, which was popularized during the Second World War (want to read all about them? Of course you do! Here’s a weird Web 1.0 site all about the Mills grenade). Mobot’s less dangerous (yet perhaps no less pain-inducing?), hydrating version comes in a variety of sizes and colourways, including a Fourth of July red, white and blue camo edition. 

Mobot states that their foam is “athlete grade,” whatever that means, and tested up for up to 350 lb. They also indicate that their products are “air travel approved.” Good luck getting one of these through a metal detector without having your bag searched.

The best part of the Mobot’s marketing is their painfully literal (and trademarked!) slogan, “life works better with water.” We can’t argue with that. 

Sadly, Mobot products must be ordered from the U.S., as they are not available directly through the Canadian Amazon site. Pricing starts at just $39USD for a thing you put water in and roll on. Some of the carbon footprint from creating such a meaningless product will be offset by Mobot’s claim their bottles are “eco friendly” because they’re made of recycled steel and are refillable, we guess?

Although, Mobot claims to be the first-ever water bottle/foam roller, they are not the only ones in this suddenly crowded space. SKLZ are another explosive-lookalike product maker who believe you should warm your drinking water up by rolling on it first. They also do not believe in vowels, and make other products, such as this bag filled with sand which you are supposed to throw around and call it exercise.

Pro tip: you can also use any other steel or hard plastic water bottle that you already own as a foam roller with the same effect. And they don’t look like they are going to detonate if you open the top for a sip of refreshing, thigh-warmed H20.