Misty Mate Cool Camper

This isn't what I was looking for, but it did get my attention.  It works on the same principle as the swamp cooler, which is that evaporation cools things down.  If you don't believe this, you need to check it out sometime.  Now, the interesting thing to me is not so much the cooling function, which is quite useful in its own right, but the possibility of using this to recycle water.  That's because evaporation of water and the condensing of it should produce pure, distilled water.

But this is quite interesting in the cooling feature too, as there are models of this that will portable enough for you to carry along.  If you need to cool down, this misty mate deluxe will cool down your head, which is where a lot of your heat will be.  So, it can be very useful survival tool.

Now, the thing I was looking for was a styrofoam cooler.  I didn't see any at the supermarket, and so I googled it online when I got home.  That's what got me to Walgreens, which is where I found this gizmo.

I wanted something cheap to put the humidifier into so that it could condense the water faster and more efficiently than what I was working on yesterday.  The styrofoam will keep the cooler air inside and tend to cool it even further, or so I speculate.  This will make condensation proceed much quicker and more efficiently, I hope.

Maybe the local Walgreens will have the styrofoam coolers, or I will have to look elsewhere.

Update:

Reading through the customer reviews on Amazon, this thing seems to have issues.  Might be best to avoid it.