Come on, Heinz, catch up! Enterprising students create ketchup bottle that pours like milk (and it only took them two months)os.tvboxnow.com. E+ o* C# T" s4 b% O: S
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PUBLISHED: 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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& F- P6 l: s+ L2 Xtvb 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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The results are astonishing - and any burger and chips fan out there should prepare to be amazed.- S3 l! _- F7 v! H% I! a# V
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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.
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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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'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.2 a0 n% g, l0 e7 \* O
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Naturally, the team had to research their market before getting to work.
- x/ c; S5 u: d% V8 U! q- t; tTVBNOW 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。
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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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/ E2 o+ J& \' r9 X5 e公仔箱論壇'We have all types of sauces, jellies, and jams everywhere in our lab - It’s like a closet full of condiments.') F) `: m j- Q* F+ ]' C* Z' t
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" K8 H7 C/ i+ F5 F* @. e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
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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.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。/ Q x' a2 C! s) i- S; U. L7 m
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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.'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 C& j* x' g3 B5 T
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The $100,000 winner of MIT's contest was perhaps a bit less jaw-dropping, but hopefully just as useful.
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The product, called CloudTop, was created by 22-year-old undergraduate Brett van Zuiden, and aims to remove the 'Upload' button from the web, by linking all those different services - such as Facebook, Google Drive, DropBox, and Flickr - together.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。9 y8 S: @6 @! ~0 D$ Q. ?$ U4 W! w
6 P2 ?) O/ c' a; Xos.tvboxnow.com'I get my burger and proceed to add all the necessary condiments: lettuce, tomatoes, onions…but oh no!
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Dave Smith, MIT, explains the problem
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, G' Y' h# Y% e4 Zos.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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+ e2 T0 F1 V. O/ fNot a fan of ketchup? Mayonnaise lovers can also enjoy the magical properties of LiquiGlideos.tvboxnow.com6 j) @* z5 E( B+ i- j4 \. @
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HOW TO GET THE LAST DROP
/ ?' o+ D& i m2 \7 ]9 e( ^8 W% {. z1 Ntvb 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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$ _, f; ~) y7 ~os.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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5 l( t* p. e3 l" W, E3 G+ I' P& Pos.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.. b3 h; l+ q7 m3 M
7 h1 G7 g5 Q' l3 G) QHeinz 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'.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb) a0 v/ M' o* y* z3 ^
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'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.
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And store your bottle upside-down - at least that way the slow-moving sauce has less far to travel.公仔箱論壇# l3 O7 ~" _; u) }: O/ X) X; Y) {
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