In before someone did not RTA and accuses Consumerist of giving ideas to terrorists.

The liquid restriction on air travel is still absolutely dumb and asinine, but those are a pretty cool solution. Also handy for the kind of tiny things I used to keep in film canisters (which, in the '90s, I always had around, but not so much these days...).

They're being sold 15 for $10, or about $0.67 each. That's the cost of a generic 2-liter soda around here. Apparently, all the cost IS in the bottle!

(Yes, I know, economies of scale, etc.)

Today Mr Wizard turns ordinary airline juice into a fun, relaxing drink...

@Coles_Law: I bet it still costs them pennies to make those though.

@Coles_Law: It's a sad fact that the packaging costs more than the contents. I've never understood why you can buy 2 liter bottles of soda for about the same or even less (on sale) than smaller sizes such as 1 liter or 20/24 oz versions.

I used to get some of these from a friend whose mother worked at a bottling plant. They're great for all kinds of odds and ends.

I bet if I took a soda bottle and squeezed out all the volume except for two inches, they still wouldn't let me on the plane. UNFAIR!

@CentralServices: It is a convenience fee. You pay more for the convenience of having less product.

@R3PUBLIC0N: That's because they need to fit in the quart-size plastic baggie, a strange requirement if there ever was one.

Will these baby bottles fit?

of course they would not allow these on a plane. they are far too large.I have had too many discussions with security in the past that I don't even bother trying to bring any bottles, laptops, or anything on the plane. They always want to take me in a room and have me strip down so I do everything I can to avoid it.

@tawni: You didn't even read the post, did you?

@Etoiles: Oh, I kept that in an Altoids tin...wait, what are you talking about?

I went to Hawaii on vacation and my daughter bought a snow globe for a friend. We put it in our carry on so it wouldn't get broken. Turns out they contain glycerin which can be used to blow up a plane.

So this Caucasian family of 4, traveling home to California after a week in Hawaii is going to use the liquid in the snow globe to blow up the plane? I don't think so. We ended up having to check (and pay $15 to Hawaiian air) the bag through.

What did the TSA lady keep saying? "It's for your safety." Drove me nuts.

@tawni: Um they are 2oz, thus no they are not too large.

@Starfury: Maybe if the figure inside the globe wasn't holding dynamite, they would have been more willing to let it on.

They also look to be the perfect size and shape for, er, "internal smuggling" of contraband.

The fact that they look like test tubes makes me think that a 1-quart bag full of these with all manner of colored liquids like shampoo and soap would be considered suspicious, if only because they make me look like I'm a mad scientist.

We all know that intent is not required to be pulled aside for a cavity search. Nope, merely having a catchy T-Shirt with wires, or a home-made battery pack and metal bottle, or a lite-brite Ignignokt giving you the finger is enough to get your ass handed to you.

It took years before TSA stopped pulling me aside to inspect my highly-suspicious laser pointer. ("Please put the batteries in it sir. I need to verify that it works. Do not touch the bag.")

@48crash: They also need the container to hold fewer than 100 ml. It doesn't matter how full the container is; if it holds more than 100 ml, it's too large.

@bbagdan: I don't know; that ring underneath the cap seems like it'd be painful. Then again, maybe my internal cavities are just not used to holding 2-liter-cap-diameter objects.

@ARP: i use glass containers with a silicone to silicone seal.

I don't understand why I can 8 ounce bottle of water for 25 cents, but an empty bottle costs more than that. Does anyone know where I can get watertight containers in the 3oz range for less than a quarter?

@JohnQPublic: That should say "why I can buy an 8 ounce"

@Coles_Law: Well, they're charging an amount for people buying in small quantities. For the soda companies, they charge a lot less per item because they have a guaranteed sale of, oh, 2 million. They also don't have to separate them in packaging, etc. They can ship palletloads without problem.

I think we broke the cooltools site :(

@MostlyHarmless: Reading the Article is proving harder than normal today. The CoolTools site is slammed, and there is no Google cache of the page. But you can get at least a chunk of it at [clipmarks.com]

@lotussix: I think he was making a joke on the "film canisters" thing, and how you dont see them anymore thanks to digicams.

@Vandelay Import Export:

And (usually) for getting your soda cold.

@CyGuy: Well they didnt even need to read the original article.

And seems like i confuzed Consumerist commenters with Gizmodo commenters -- but gizmodo seems to attract more approved commenters who dont really read the article and just say what they want to.

@CentralServices: The plastic, the labor, the equipment, the shipping, the marketing, and everything else costs far more than the corn syrup and water...

@Starfury: I'm more comforted that govt rules apply to even caucasians w hawiaan shirts and I heart Arnold buttons

@Starfury: Who told you the glycerin in a snow globe can be used to blow up a plane? Please charge that person with "Failure to Complete Chemistry 101" and sentence them to repeat 11th grade. Unbelievable.

@MostlyHarmless: No, I'm blaming YOU of giving ideas to terrorists. It's very possible that the terrorists would have missed this story when they conduct their daily search of Consumerist for terror methods.

Frustrating consumers by posing as difficult CSRs, jihadists calling innocent Americans to peddle auto warranties, shouting out "Allah Akbar!" while mislabeling retail items on sale; all inspired by Consumerist.

And now because of YOU, they will be sneaking hand lotion and hair conditioner onto airplanes in two ounce containers instead of the 8 oz. containers allowed by the TSA.

Talk to your neighborhood homebrewer. White Labs yeast comes in these and I usually try to save them. Not for airplanes, per se, but they are small, compact, and extremely durable.

@Etoiles: I was thinking the same thing. I rounded up the last film canister I had last week, and was wondering what I will use now. These look perfect.

@Starfury: El-Al targets young white women traveling alone as primary airline terror perpetrators ... usually chosen by young men who romance them, Stockholm Syndrome them, and then send the "harmless-looking" blond western college student on the plane with the bomb.

Just so you know.

@tawni: Maybe there are other reasons they want you to strip down.

The TSA is theater at its worst. They do nothing to secure us, yet inconvenience us all horribly with their BS "preventative measures".
Anyone with half a brain can circumvent their system.
Citation needed? [www.theatlantic.com]

A few years back, i worked asa volunteer at Discovery Place, a science museum here in Charlotte. We used these things instead of test tubes, because they're cheap, kids couldn't break them, and, well, they look like test tubes on steroids.

So how many of those stupid little bottles would I need to have in order to get a decent drink? :P

@MostlyHarmless: i was replying to ARP, not Etoiles.

and i was referring to how i store my marijuana.

@lotussix: Yes, yes, I know. Though I have no idea why I wrote that comment. It makes no sense even to me. Anyways, what makes you think ARP was talking about pot? Or is there a joke I am missing?

@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): Yea I wouldn't be offended and I'm a white caucasian with a family of 3. Security does exist for a reason, and terrorists will always use ploys, like Eyebrows is referring to, to sneak around security.

That reminds me of vietnam stories you'd hear about kids running up to soldiers to give them a flower and then ka-boom the kid blows up, takes out 10 soldiers, and the NVA soldier is happy with himself.

@Hoss: Yeah, it's not like it's *that* hard to find caucasians who want to blow things up. If you use a well-known profile for screening, terrorist will know it too and avoid it.

@suburbancowboy: I would venture that most security is a false sense of...err...security.

Sure it helps to screen everybody at an event for metal weapons to make sure that we're all in agreement that no metal weapons can be snuck in to an event. But there are plastic weapons, and people who know the guard and sneak things in, and people who know where to hid metal weapons, etc etc

Security does a lot to make poeple feel safe but all in all it's sll it's mostly false. Hell we've had presidents shot and the secret service is basically the cream of the crop in security. I remember when Bush was in Europe some crazy was able to throw a grenade on stage when he was speaking that failed to detonate.

@harvey_birdman: Funny, I was just thinking the same thing. Nitroglycerin is not the same as glycerin. Glycerin is a viscous fluid that is often used as a food additive (to make things like cheap wine more viscous and "full" feeling).

It appears that you all are able to actually reach the article. As for me, I keep getting assorted erros - 503, 500. So I'm just going to comment on the consumerist post and note that I don't understand at all.
Some sort of dark wizardry turn two-liter bottles into two-ounce bottles, on which the same caps fit?

@jook: Ooh, look. a 504 error too.

@JohnQPublic: Does anyone know where I can get watertight containers in the 3oz range for less than a quarter?

Try here:
[www.sks-bottle.com]

You may have to buy in bulk for a price that low