Come on, Heinz, catch up! Enterprising students create ketchup bottle that pours like milk (and it only took them two months)公仔箱論壇( M: l! c' @2 s9 I# T6 l0 R
By Eddie Wrennwww2.tvboxnow.com5 A, W6 i; N- Q3 P8 L& v
PUBLISHED: 08:56 GMT, 23 May 2012 | UPDATED: 12:23 GMT, 23 May 2012
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Any 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.公仔箱論壇) q; b! V- R/ @2 v( d0 ?
But now, a radical new bottle design could spell the end of that problem forever.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。( D. z5 x4 h2 C+ \, J
3 ^7 F* `9 S2 `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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0 }* `# w/ U, f9 Y+ e- N }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.
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! z5 t& ]8 J% c; Ttvb now,tvbnow,bttvbBurger 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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5 L ]5 t( K0 \- s0 A" C$ y0 mtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb'Somehow this sparked the idea of putting it in food bottles - it could be great just for its slippery properties.0 l. F6 Z I6 n4 r
, j3 K- N. s" T# W, q& Y1 z9 e, v: Owww2.tvboxnow.com'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.www2.tvboxnow.com2 N) m* k, e. C- @& a$ A
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% Z3 H, c! I1 d3 K* R公仔箱論壇Naturally, the team had to research their market before getting to work.公仔箱論壇3 h `+ U# b2 \1 b6 e7 }& n9 {
- C6 C2 U# `2 t- J1 |% g1 ~- ]4 Pwww2.tvboxnow.comSmith, 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.
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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。0 ]; n. S, t7 ]6 d: {& _
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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.'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。, u. @0 _' e/ v1 K1 `/ ?
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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 chipswww2.tvboxnow.com/ {! W2 D9 r2 s% x$ Z* b# ^4 t
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The old way: Good luck getting that last piece out...
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( O6 |8 i5 U* y$ r) N公仔箱論壇So why did the team pick sauces for their award-winning product?
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Dave said: 'It’s funny: Everyone is always like, "Why bottles? What’s the big deal?"www2.tvboxnow.com8 h' s2 X. e1 g# j
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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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& ] W, s9 m, Y. o0 g+ b'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.www2.tvboxnow.com* L* I3 y+ e5 q/ G
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The $100,000 winner of MIT's contest was perhaps a bit less jaw-dropping, but hopefully just as useful.公仔箱論壇0 R* K. ^$ |9 Z
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The 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.
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( f5 K- m6 l2 W& l'I get my burger and proceed to add all the necessary condiments: lettuce, tomatoes, onions…but oh no!tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb" u+ b5 C9 d6 p/ u5 s z
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Dave Smith, MIT, explains the problemtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb t% E- h) a+ R0 a
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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.
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Team LiquiGlide was bestowed the Reader's Choice at MIT's Entrepreneurship Contest, winning a $2,000 prize - but their product is sure to reap them much more money in the future; d! ? V( K) O( M1 M" Q+ M
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Not a fan of ketchup? Mayonnaise lovers can also enjoy the magical properties of LiquiGlide
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So while we wait for the MIT team's product to come to market, how can you get that last bit of ketchup?$ i4 }2 A- |# c8 e! P3 m
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There are many tried and true methods - all of which involves some vigorous shaking, spinning or twisting, with swearing optional., @5 n2 d: d0 G2 c) R. A
+ y2 U5 C( B* K9 J, L0 yThere's the windmill approach: Swing your arm around in a semi-circle and let the centrifugal forces help you out.
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Or, 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.
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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'.www2.tvboxnow.com( e, z3 Q, }6 Y
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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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And store your bottle upside-down - at least that way the slow-moving sauce has less far to travel.
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