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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.But now, a radical new bottle design could spell the end of that problem forever.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.The results are astonishing - and any burger and chips fan out there should prepare to be amazed.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.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.'Somehow this sparked the idea of putting it in food bottles - it could be great just for its slippery properties.'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.'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 i...
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brycewi19Neato.
EvilDeathBeeLooked like a slug! That was cool as, bru
Porksandwichsays...And it's only a little cancer causing when left out in direct sunlight, or at temps above 60, or when turned upside down.
Isn't that how it goes with all new coatings or plastics? heh
JiggaJonson"FUCK curing diseases!!! I'm devoting my career to ketchup!!!" -MIT Researcher
MonkeySpanksays...Extrapolating a bit; I predict a lot of dead hamsters inside these bottles in the 2014 emergency rooms.
ReverendTedNext innovation is to coat the GI tract with it. BOOM. Billion-dollar weight-loss product.
blastido_factorI'd bet it's been coated with the new "hydrophobic" surface coating. Expect it to be on everything soon.
spoco2I initially thought the first bottle was the demonstration, and I thought to myself 'Really? That's pretty crap'. Then I was all like 'Woah', and then I was like 'Cool', then I was totally
, then I was a bit 
And then I went all 
but then I visited the boys room, and I was 
then 
PlayhousePalsReally? Guess it was a slow week at MIT, huh? =oI
braschlosan>> ^Porksandwich:
And it's only a little cancer causing when left out in direct sunlight, or at temps above 60, or when turned upside down.
Isn't that how it goes with all new coatings or plastics? heh
I came to say essentially the same thing.
PaybackSees video title: MIT Team Create Ketchup Bottle That Pours Like Milk
Watches video.
Thinks: "If that's how your milk pours out of a bottle, you MIGHT want to check the expiry date."
FantomasI don't see food companies going for this. All the food you save is food you're not buying from them.
bmacs27says...>> ^Fantomas:
I don't see food companies going for this. All the food you save is food you're not buying from them.
Unless it's the thing that makes you buy from them instead of the competition.
Fantomas>> ^bmacs27:
>> ^Fantomas:
I don't see food companies going for this. All the food you save is food you're not buying from them.Unless it's the thing that makes you buy from them instead of the competition.Touché.
vaire2ubewe have to make the companies see why our existence is in their interests... or else SkyNet time.
i want this coating to become more commercially available! ive seen the video of it in a spray can... it is so useful.
Mojofreemsays...Bah! Stupid copyright claims... *dead
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Drachen_Jagersays...I like how this has more votes than the kid who created a new and effective way to detect cancer.
Good to know you have your priorities straight.
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