As Gandhi famously said, First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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If you tell your friends you are buying an Eee Pad instead of an iPad, they will laugh at you.

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"There just seems to be nothing in place in stop them doing whatever they like and they just laugh at you, " he added.

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You need a creative bottle design, something that will be embarrassing enough to make all the people at TSA laugh when they make you hurl it in the trash at the airport.

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