Solo Message in a Bottle

Solo, a soft drink company based in Norway, recently built an 8-meter (26-foot) tall replica soda bottle outfitted with solar panels, a camera, navigation lights, an Automatic Identification System, a radar reflector, and GPS tracking technology, all powered through solar panels on the top. It also has a customized camera that is programmed to tweet a 360-degree panorama every eight hours and is outfitted with nozzles that clear the lenses with fresh water from an onboard tank. and set it adrift in the ocean.
Whew!
Oh, and it weights 2,500 kilograms (2.7 tons).


Solo towed the message in a bottle off the coast of Tenerife in the Canary Islands and left it at the mercy of the currents. Inside the bottle is a case of Solo and a 12 square meter (129 square foot) letter in various languages explaining that whoever finds the giant bottle wins a finders party in the nearest town and lists a phone number to call.

You can track it here via a awesome interactive map. -http://solo.no/en/map
They also have a twitter account where they post pictures from the bottle - twitter.com/SoloSoftDrink