Come on, Heinz, catch up! Enterprising students create ketchup bottle that pours like milk (and it only took them two months)
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' t% L) r% Z8 v+ [- R1 ^- mwww2.tvboxnow.comAny ketchup fan will tell you: Getting that last dollop of the red stuff out of the bottle is a headache - and it normally just ends up in the bin.
; ]8 ?6 q3 K* v: J公仔箱論壇But now, a radical new bottle design could spell the end of that problem forever.
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The MIT university team came up with LiquiGlide, a 'super-slippery' coating which makes the insides of the bottle so frictionless that the sludgy goo inside just slides out like water.
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, r& @. @' ]- q+ g公仔箱論壇The results are astonishing - and any burger and chips fan out there should prepare to be amazed.
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MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith and his team of mechanical engineers and nano-technologists at the Varanasi Research Group spent two months devising a solution.公仔箱論壇) \; }0 O4 @$ p7 F6 f, p! G* ^, \
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Burger fan Smith said: 'We were really interested in - and still are - using this coating for anti-icing, or for preventing clogs that form in oil and gas lines, or for non-wetting applications like, say, on windshields.
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'Somehow this sparked the idea of putting it in food bottles - it could be great just for its slippery properties.
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. L+ ? _* h/ z T'Plus, most of these other applications have a much longer time to market - we realised we could make this coating for bottles that is pretty much ready. I mean, it is ready, as you can see.公仔箱論壇5 h* H+ }1 d. l9 i1 g0 H
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'We had a limited amount of materials to pick from - I can’t say what they are, but we’ve patented the hell out of it.'
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Naturally, the team had to research their market before getting to work.
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Smith, who is is pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering and a minor in entrepreneurship, and already holds nine patents, told the FastCo website: 'It was never really a personal pain point for me, but I do hate struggling to get sauce out of the bottles.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。( [, s$ Y( G+ i$ ?# S
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'I didn’t know about the tapping of the '57' until I started looking into this. It was all news to me.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。5 V+ U! @% y; r* X# @" ?- U
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'We have all types of sauces, jellies, and jams everywhere in our lab - It’s like a closet full of condiments.'7 g7 Q% s) w# D9 P. u" |
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For those who cannot see the video: See how the ketchup pours like milk towards the lip of the bottle, before landing neatly on your burger or chips
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So why did the team pick sauces for their award-winning product?公仔箱論壇" \ |6 V- q1 H+ C5 j# I# _8 E
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Dave said: 'It’s funny: Everyone is always like, "Why bottles? What’s the big deal?"! p- g' @! `% } O# A
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'But then you tell them the market for bottles - just the sauces alone is a $17billion market.
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9 ^" r4 m3 E. K& V7 c公仔箱論壇'And if all those bottles had our coating, we estimate that we could save about one million tons of food from being thrown out every year.'
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The secret ingredient to the liquid coating is a heavily-guarded secret, but the team promise it is non-toxic and will be FDA approved.0 J% ]! l+ b# p( f$ j- d
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The $100,000 winner of MIT's contest was perhaps a bit less jaw-dropping, but hopefully just as useful.
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8 g7 z) Z8 v& X; y5 {- A& b$ vtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe product, called CloudTop, was created by 22-year-old undergraduate Brett van Zuiden, and aims to remove the 'Upload' button from the web, by linking all those different services - such as Facebook, Google Drive, DropBox, and Flickr - together.4 D9 w: [* O3 {! J& a9 Z
6 Q p! p7 _3 L( g7 g- Q: C ntvb now,tvbnow,bttvb'I get my burger and proceed to add all the necessary condiments: lettuce, tomatoes, onions…but oh no!
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Dave Smith, MIT, explains the problem' ]/ q# D9 Q$ t" p C
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For example, you could drag and drop a picture file between all the different photo services without needing to re-upload and re-tag on each occasion.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb* ^- F' |8 Y3 j- S
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8 ?6 f. t, o1 R3 R, dTeam LiquiGlide was bestowed the Reader's Choice at MIT's Entrepreneurship Contest, winning a $2,000 prize - but their product is sure to reap them much more money in the future
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* I; w0 E) {2 g5 r公仔箱論壇Not a fan of ketchup? Mayonnaise lovers can also enjoy the magical properties of LiquiGlidetvb now,tvbnow,bttvb1 p0 U; S/ @6 x# X/ a
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# y/ A! e- J7 q5 V6 V' \5 D$ w/ uSo while we wait for the MIT team's product to come to market, how can you get that last bit of ketchup?
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- w2 b2 W+ K! Ytvb now,tvbnow,bttvbOr, most common, is the 'tap-tap-tap' approach, where you hit the end of the bottle and wait for the ketchup to fall - but this normally either takes a while - or ends up covering your food with way too much sauce.公仔箱論壇5 y( |/ \8 c0 P( V7 p
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Heinz recommends this tip: 'To release ketchup faster from the glass bottle, apply a firm tap to the sweet spot on the neck of the bottle - the '57'.公仔箱論壇: p; G: m( o" Y4 H; _
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'Very few people know this secret. Now you’re in-the-know.'
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When the bottle is completely full, a vacuum keeps the sauce intact - so use a knife to get the first bit out, and it will get easier after that.
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