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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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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb( U8 ^9 f2 P7 R h o3 ^
But now, a radical new bottle design could spell the end of that problem forever." N3 G$ J+ E) p% \; y1 m
, f& e( _$ k, M5 mThe 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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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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'Somehow this sparked the idea of putting it in food bottles - it could be great just for its slippery properties.os.tvboxnow.com0 N% r3 [( C n4 c( u# b; D
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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.公仔箱論壇3 c8 e# d5 @! x
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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.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 e: @: [7 M A! d9 b; i
$ y: X* R. T5 `3 [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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% ~+ z3 s3 G1 Q# x. ?- r'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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" \" x; z1 g2 t) b( b( Z+ ]* P m+ t'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 chips9 X* g3 b) W* `# q' M
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* p( T6 j2 p4 n+ qThe old way: Good luck getting that last piece out...
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6 g6 q& \0 D" E- ktvb now,tvbnow,bttvbSo why did the team pick sauces for their award-winning product?
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/ }" j, @& z3 s' ~. S% N公仔箱論壇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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7 {3 f1 @' M. q% e8 n: }. stvb 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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( U" _. a8 V' U0 w8 htvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe secret ingredient to the liquid coating is a heavily-guarded secret, but the team promise it is non-toxic and will be FDA approved.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。7 V* s. `; ~+ G
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The $100,000 winner of MIT's contest was perhaps a bit less jaw-dropping, but hopefully just as useful.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb4 ], f6 u' V: L# _; [
- K6 s. r% d6 v. RThe product, called CloudTop, was created by 22-year-old undergraduate Brett van Zuiden, and aims to remove the 'Upload' button from the web, by linking all those different services - such as Facebook, Google Drive, DropBox, and Flickr - together.
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. X f7 x( I& R; N' p/ o'I get my burger and proceed to add all the necessary condiments: lettuce, tomatoes, onions…but oh no!8 E% ]6 p3 f4 F7 T" F
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'The ketchup bottle is running low! I violently shake and slam on the bottle but only manage to get a small drop out (or even worse, I spray it all over my clothes!)'
3 W2 q8 [9 l( w) _tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbDave Smith, MIT, explains the problem
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3 ~, [0 V7 ?; O: a9 _8 f& \os.tvboxnow.comFor example, you could drag and drop a picture file between all the different photo services without needing to re-upload and re-tag on each occasion.
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$ E& Z/ w; v! t D. `) _9 h公仔箱論壇Team LiquiGlide was bestowed the Reader's Choice at MIT's Entrepreneurship Contest, winning a $2,000 prize - but their product is sure to reap them much more money in the futureos.tvboxnow.com+ j8 p# q7 z6 F, u1 U$ k* g8 k: [
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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?
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There are many tried and true methods - all of which involves some vigorous shaking, spinning or twisting, with swearing optional.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。/ A1 A( E) r7 I/ U
* K" @" \/ A: M# l% L3 \! v% VThere's the windmill approach: Swing your arm around in a semi-circle and let the centrifugal forces help you out.公仔箱論壇3 k3 O0 e9 T& T/ i7 o" [
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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'.os.tvboxnow.com# d8 F' |* y( E4 Q' e5 _$ L
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'Very few people know this secret. Now you’re in-the-know.'
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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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