My brother’s outdoor products company, humangear, is introducing a new hydration bottle that’s quite nice. A prominent backpacking YouTuber named Darwin interviewed him about the project: https://youtu.be/1-Ox6dW-yqE
The discussion touches on the curiously long history of the Nalgene bottle, which escaped from science labs into widespread use as a water bottle — a role it was never designed for and for which, in hindsight, it’s a mediocre fit.