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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6 E, D3 K$ I9 e2 J公仔箱論壇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." I! ^- m! |: e1 }9 e
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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3 i' l4 u4 y5 T6 ?7 L$ atvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe results are astonishing - and any burger and chips fan out there should prepare to be amazed.os.tvboxnow.com- r" \! D! B- v
$ h/ H" L+ x! Z! C7 N6 atvb now,tvbnow,bttvbMIT 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.+ T+ t" Q% D1 \; K7 H
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'Somehow this sparked the idea of putting it in food bottles - it could be great just for its slippery properties.公仔箱論壇2 _. F! P" L! U& P, K
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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.'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。( ?$ `4 C$ z1 p) Q0 A4 y# k' E
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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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" v2 }; e4 e% t6 S( q0 K'I didn’t know about the tapping of the '57' until I started looking into this. It was all news to me.os.tvboxnow.com- b4 n$ B' u" d! {6 G u1 h
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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。* ~5 r' C, I( G6 u7 Y; N
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- ~& k1 W. I& D* Q# V/ ?tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbFor 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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The old way: Good luck getting that last piece out...
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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?"
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'But then you tell them the market for bottles - just the sauces alone is a $17billion market.
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! l# s* U; q9 C$ Wtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb'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 $100,000 winner of MIT's contest was perhaps a bit less jaw-dropping, but hopefully just as useful.
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The product, called CloudTop, was created by 22-year-old undergraduate Brett van Zuiden, and aims to remove the 'Upload' button from the web, by linking all those different services - such as Facebook, Google Drive, DropBox, and Flickr - together.os.tvboxnow.com# J# M* A' T K$ {
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'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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$ |* r$ ]8 e, l- w) H x" M; }2 b& JFor 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.os.tvboxnow.com h7 x* [9 j! f" T7 T# p
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% `* l8 a& n1 K, \: ETeam LiquiGlide was bestowed the Reader's Choice at MIT's Entrepreneurship Contest, winning a $2,000 prize - but their product is sure to reap them much more money in the future
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Not a fan of ketchup? Mayonnaise lovers can also enjoy the magical properties of LiquiGlide
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HOW TO GET THE LAST DROPos.tvboxnow.com! T; r. d3 B! I! A; C6 U1 q
So while we wait for the MIT team's product to come to market, how can you get that last bit of ketchup?
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There are many tried and true methods - all of which involves some vigorous shaking, spinning or twisting, with swearing optional.
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Or, most common, is the 'tap-tap-tap' approach, where you hit the end of the bottle and wait for the ketchup to fall - but this normally either takes a while - or ends up covering your food with way too much sauce.公仔箱論壇3 L5 Z& E1 i) j8 F
7 l. L* Y$ e y: G4 r! ?# atvb now,tvbnow,bttvbHeinz 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'.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。- B( G6 D6 }; N+ [- N7 f" \2 n9 V
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'Very few people know this secret. Now you’re in-the-know.'
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2 n, q4 G3 e- ?! J: z, YAnd store your bottle upside-down - at least that way the slow-moving sauce has less far to travel.
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