Come on, Heinz, catch up! Enterprising students create ketchup bottle that pours like milk (and it only took them two months), E% O: Q+ H0 J7 K" ^) _% x$ ]
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PUBLISHED: 08:56 GMT, 23 May 2012 | UPDATED: 12:23 GMT, 23 May 2012tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb! ]* T# Z" d; v, n; U& N" d
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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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0 F5 `5 e* d$ V% lThe 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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The results are astonishing - and any burger and chips fan out there should prepare to be amazed.
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% E; T5 _) }* @! ?3 QMIT PhD candidate Dave Smith and his team of mechanical engineers and nano-technologists at the Varanasi Research Group spent two months devising a solution.0 s- ?& p6 p+ H7 A6 \. L, R
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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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9 U/ c. q! a$ w Z2 {! B0 y3 T公仔箱論壇'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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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.
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+ b3 F9 e5 }7 |4 E'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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' [; f7 A/ |. U* F4 Q'We have all types of sauces, jellies, and jams everywhere in our lab - It’s like a closet full of condiments.'
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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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+ t% R8 M8 d" z/ x( M/ ktvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe old way: Good luck getting that last piece out...
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/ D9 M4 S( B* E, c: v* e2 @os.tvboxnow.comSo why did the team pick sauces for their award-winning product?
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, I: b+ Y; T, yos.tvboxnow.comDave said: 'It’s funny: Everyone is always like, "Why bottles? What’s the big deal?"
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" Y1 g9 T U8 I# ]$ o- m$ ?os.tvboxnow.com'But then you tell them the market for bottles - just the sauces alone is a $17billion market.
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'And if all those bottles had our coating, we estimate that we could save about one million tons of food from being thrown out every year.'
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4 t5 ?1 Y' L( u$ AThe secret ingredient to the liquid coating is a heavily-guarded secret, but the team promise it is non-toxic and will be FDA approved.
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; W( e4 G9 b2 GThe $100,000 winner of MIT's contest was perhaps a bit less jaw-dropping, but hopefully just as useful.
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The product, called CloudTop, was created by 22-year-old undergraduate Brett van Zuiden, and aims to remove the 'Upload' button from the web, by linking all those different services - such as Facebook, Google Drive, DropBox, and Flickr - together.& X' J% a( R$ }/ \3 a0 j
0 h5 M- D4 G; U) c, w; B% e b' e6 G* {os.tvboxnow.com'I get my burger and proceed to add all the necessary condiments: lettuce, tomatoes, onions…but oh no!
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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!)'
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9 X8 ?& d9 a0 U; `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 $2,000 prize - but their product is sure to reap them much more money in the futureos.tvboxnow.com8 f) C4 a; i; V+ @( }: O$ c
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! v W, c( a- E9 q0 J1 O% T3 Kos.tvboxnow.comNot a fan of ketchup? Mayonnaise lovers can also enjoy the magical properties of LiquiGlide
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HOW TO GET THE LAST DROPos.tvboxnow.com8 e* i1 {6 S7 S- i
So 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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There are many tried and true methods - all of which involves some vigorous shaking, spinning or twisting, with swearing optional.
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There's the windmill approach: Swing your arm around in a semi-circle and let the centrifugal forces help you out.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb G0 k/ h x9 n; X* ~
& F! `, O+ K3 E9 uOr, 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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'Very few people know this secret. Now you’re in-the-know.'tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb: z2 G2 p; N, q! c- d( ?, G$ Y( r
+ ^% c2 L) F$ A3 N* V5 H: p% [1 ^; s$ N$ Otvb now,tvbnow,bttvbWhen 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.os.tvboxnow.com( I( r$ E* z3 i, z
9 G8 R7 k( Q9 U* xos.tvboxnow.comAnd store your bottle upside-down - at least that way the slow-moving sauce has less far to travel.公仔箱論壇$ @6 {4 Q& F& p* A
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