Water Bottle

The MSR Guardian acts as both water filter and purifier, eliminating 100 percent of all biological threats you might find in even the dirtiest of water.

There's a trick campers use, where they shine a flashlight down into a water bottle to create a lantern. Well, Italian cycling goods manufacturer Elite uses that same principle in its new Candea bottle/bike light.

An established player is putting some skin in the connected hydration game. Thermos is set to launch the Smart Lid Hydration Bottle, which connects with the user's smartphone to keep tabs on his or her daily hydration.

If there's one knock on hydration packs, it's that the reservoirs inside can be difficult to clean. Texas company APK Gear has a solution: disposable, self-sealing bladders that you never have to clean.

Although most cyclists probably don't give much thought to their water bottle or bottle cage, the fact is that like just about anything else, those components can be lightened and simplified. That's just what British cycling design company Fabric has done, with its new Cageless water bottle.

The new HidrateMe water bottle ensures that you keep drinking by keeping the proverbial light bulb lit. It tracks your water intake via an accompanying app and illuminates when it's time for you to hydrate.

Over the years, one of the biggest trends we've seen in water bottle design is the collapsible bottle that compacts down to pocket size when empty. The Hydaway offers a slightly different take on the trend, its silicone body compacting like an accordion into a flat, pocketable disc.

In 2013, Hydrapak introduced its SoftFlask series of soft-sided TPU water bottles designed to collapse into your pocket. The all-new Stash combines this soft-sided design with a flat bottom that snaps together with the top, making the packed bottle even easier to transport.

Most water drinkers are satisfied if their bottle does its single function of effectively holding water for the occasional sip. The new ÖKO Odyssey water bottle, on the other hand, packs six functions in one bottle, including two filters, a flashlight, a lantern and a storage compartment.

The NKD Aqua Pod champions the health and environmental benefits of reusable water bottles, but attempts to target the luxury bottled water market by claiming to replicate water sourced from mountain springs.

Scosche recently introduced the BoomBottle, a rugged Bluetooth stereo speaker designed to be carried in a bike's water bottle cage. After meeting some company reps at Interbike 2013, I got the chance to try out one of the funny little speakers for myself.

BluFit, currently at prototype stage and fundraising on Indiegogo, is a water bottle for the digital age. It connects to a smartphone and an app will send alerts to the user as their hydration performance is unsatisfactory. The glass bottle is machine washable and is protected by a silicon sleeve.