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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8 p' L& c3 A' n/ v# fPUBLISHED: 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.
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% q' c ~/ r: P6 qtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe 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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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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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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb7 b1 y5 ~4 A9 B. r0 ?% A/ D; _
! ^+ A( Z& T: i2 c4 [( V公仔箱論壇'Somehow this sparked the idea of putting it in food bottles - it could be great just for its slippery properties.! C% L3 G: k( M" o6 ]
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'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.
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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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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.公仔箱論壇" e2 ?% T' H" M7 Z: 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.
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' H$ N. l* Y5 M8 z% }/ V9 |公仔箱論壇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: W1 q ]& S) n, i- w) W( ~2 d
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The old way: Good luck getting that last piece out...1 p( F1 |. U4 p) G
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So why did the team pick sauces for their award-winning product?$ l" I, G# S/ s/ j, s0 W g! h6 d
- T2 x9 a2 `) m% p7 qtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbDave said: 'It’s funny: Everyone is always like, "Why bottles? What’s the big deal?"
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4 W3 D* u. u) H! N# K! u( Atvb now,tvbnow,bttvb'But then you tell them the market for bottles - just the sauces alone is a $17billion market.
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'And if all those bottles had our coating, we estimate that we could save about one million tons of food from being thrown out every year.'公仔箱論壇$ N8 K8 E; g2 N- C: w9 Q/ U
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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.公仔箱論壇+ _' l2 c6 z* }- }: S$ I8 H
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The $100,000 winner of MIT's contest was perhaps a bit less jaw-dropping, but hopefully just as useful.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。3 r) z/ P4 U. A. Z: l. E/ T' z7 ~" t+ n
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The product, called CloudTop, was created by 22-year-old undergraduate Brett van Zuiden, and aims to remove the 'Upload' button from the web, by linking all those different services - such as Facebook, Google Drive, DropBox, and Flickr - together.
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'I get my burger and proceed to add all the necessary condiments: lettuce, tomatoes, onions…but oh no!os.tvboxnow.com5 L4 U4 t! X" `7 O6 U# i
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'The ketchup bottle is running low! I violently shake and slam on the bottle but only manage to get a small drop out (or even worse, I spray it all over my clothes!)'TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。& }# y7 r5 Q l- L$ Z3 U
Dave Smith, MIT, explains the problemtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb2 G4 T6 |2 [# b# U- A: I, A
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6 @- n" B7 I- J! S) S$ vTeam 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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HOW TO GET THE LAST DROP
: ~0 y1 e* a3 _" xtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbSo 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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+ G! }! b% H0 |3 o+ wos.tvboxnow.comThere are many tried and true methods - all of which involves some vigorous shaking, spinning or twisting, with swearing optional.
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/ M; D% G7 n6 \, h5 k- y- sos.tvboxnow.comThere'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.. j- P R- V- u/ o7 v1 l# B
) ~6 n3 z# t1 `) |2 T% C公仔箱論壇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'.; t" N) Q: f( B% ~& N4 B5 ~7 _' y
; T0 }- @7 s# @! g, N公仔箱論壇'Very few people know this secret. Now you’re in-the-know.'
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% `( E4 |/ @% P+ P4 R: w/ W公仔箱論壇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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4 D/ Y) h, i7 d! P公仔箱論壇And store your bottle upside-down - at least that way the slow-moving sauce has less far to travel.
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