Come on, Heinz, catch up! Enterprising students create ketchup bottle that pours like milk (and it only took them two months)) i1 t) {. p8 Q. X! N% A
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PUBLISHED: 08:56 GMT, 23 May 2012 | UPDATED: 12:23 GMT, 23 May 2012TVBNOW 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: s# J( Y1 v, i0 y+ t1 @* r4 |* Q! n
: b1 a+ }4 Y5 V8 nTVBNOW 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。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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- F+ r3 r- y8 D7 |* UThe 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.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。9 S9 Y& y' h8 `6 q! y
7 [" N0 l8 |5 F; h. h3 VThe results are astonishing - and any burger and chips fan out there should prepare to be amazed.os.tvboxnow.com# M2 R- Q8 k# \. ^" t/ _8 t* t
, Q6 J Q* p! `8 m; q2 |公仔箱論壇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.os.tvboxnow.com6 g/ o- S s5 N. _% |
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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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" @: w' z+ M4 ]'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. l; a$ w7 e" b) Y% ]& ~% Y. V( S! g
# I/ e6 ~4 Y) a) V3 q2 ptvb now,tvbnow,bttvb'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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb/ N2 q2 m; u, N5 u' z
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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.
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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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'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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) {$ I0 o* d7 @: S8 Z0 fThe old way: Good luck getting that last piece out...5 S( L/ j+ X$ ]
! W) u6 [7 n3 O8 v! l$ v- USo 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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4 p& M' u) Z/ v/ [. v2 j( q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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, j8 n# p) _, n7 _0 sos.tvboxnow.comThe 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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2 X I& Q/ H, zThe $100,000 winner of MIT's contest was perhaps a bit less jaw-dropping, but hopefully just as useful.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb U9 X' q( D, j- T3 ^
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The product, called CloudTop, was created by 22-year-old undergraduate Brett van Zuiden, and aims to remove the 'Upload' button from the web, by linking all those different services - such as Facebook, Google Drive, DropBox, and Flickr - together.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。% D1 n* B) x8 D7 i# {% @' ^+ S
' `/ @6 G6 x- Y$ |% q'I get my burger and proceed to add all the necessary condiments: lettuce, tomatoes, onions…but oh no!公仔箱論壇4 G2 c( D; k4 o( ~' M, p9 p# o4 Q# _
- W" n: Z7 b, S' \; p% ?! `tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb'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!)'; U" y5 i# Z s, L7 m% U
Dave Smith, MIT, explains the problemos.tvboxnow.com7 e( k# s' D5 j7 Z1 M3 a- X
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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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" N+ |4 c9 K7 |Team LiquiGlide was bestowed the Reader's Choice at MIT's Entrepreneurship Contest, winning a $2,000 prize - but their product is sure to reap them much more money in the future
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Not a fan of ketchup? Mayonnaise lovers can also enjoy the magical properties of LiquiGlideTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。0 H; _+ q K4 T
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HOW TO GET THE LAST DROP
3 {( _% a8 G* p Zos.tvboxnow.comSo while we wait for the MIT team's product to come to market, how can you get that last bit of ketchup?
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There's the windmill approach: Swing your arm around in a semi-circle and let the centrifugal forces help you out.
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Or, most common, is the 'tap-tap-tap' approach, where you hit the end of the bottle and wait for the ketchup to fall - but this normally either takes a while - or ends up covering your food with way too much sauce.
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Heinz recommends this tip: 'To release ketchup faster from the glass bottle, apply a firm tap to the sweet spot on the neck of the bottle - the '57'.
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9 r3 ^; \' O+ x; j: y% xos.tvboxnow.com'Very few people know this secret. Now you’re in-the-know.'
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When the bottle is completely full, a vacuum keeps the sauce intact - so use a knife to get the first bit out, and it will get easier after that.6 H( @/ L, P$ M1 G7 ]* y$ u! `
2 m! [: K* Y9 D6 [8 O$ c1 mAnd store your bottle upside-down - at least that way the slow-moving sauce has less far to travel., \4 ^! D' j2 H9 c
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