None Stick Ketchup Bottle Solution (Official) [HD]

MIT and Harvard in battle to create life-changing product: Non-stick ketchup bottles

It's the world's biggest non-problemic problem: getting the last bit of ketchup out of the jar. Ketchup is so viscous, and it seems so eager to stick to glass and plastic. But leave it to students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to solve the greatest non-issues of our generation: A team of engineers have designed the perfect condiment bottle — one that ketchup simply cannot stick to.
The secret is in a futuristic substance known as "LiquiGlide," a non-toxic, FDA-approved coating that can be applied to the interior of bottles. According to MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith, it's "kind of a structured liquid — it's rigid like a solid, but it's lubricated like a liquid." Regardless of what the bottle is constructed of, liquid or plastic, ketchup will flow out of it nearly effortlessly.

It seems like ketchup sticking to the inside of bottles is a more compelling problem than many realize — a rival team at nearby Harvard University have been working on similar, plant-derived, ketchup bottle technology. And the idea of a friction-less ketchup bottle caught enough people's imaginations to win the audience choice award at the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.
Ending bottle friction is a noble goal. Any technology to get ketchup out of bottles easier could make a serious dent in helping reduce food waste in a $33 billion condiment industry. Smith explains that the new bottles "could save one million tons of food from being thrown out every year."
Interestingly enough, LiquiGlide wasn't initially designed to be used for ketchup — the original idea had the coating being used as an anti-icing coating, or a pipe coating that might help reduce oil and gas clogs. But as Smith explains, "most of these other applications have a much longer time to market; we realized we could make this coating for bottles that is pretty much ready. I mean, it is ready."
MIT via Fast Company
This article was written by Fox Van Allen (Twitter) and originally appeared on Tecca

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[mafiaclick86]

They should do this to my intestines. Toilet paper companies will go bankrupt. lol

[Sebastian Holmén]

Still, det blir fortfarande massvis kvar i flaskan även om det är plast,

sen kan man ju alltid lösa detta genom den väl beprövade metoden:

skölj ur med mjölk och blanda i köttfärssåsen.

[Ayelis]

They would sell MORE Ketchup because it comes out faster. If there's still ketchup left in the bottle, I keep it around for far longer than I should, trying to get the ketchup out day after day. I don't want to waste food. There are starving kids in China after all.

[missliey]

Me too!!



[LyricalWax]

or they'd sell less per bottle for the same price, or most likely jack up the price which would be justified by the 'brand new bottle!'

[mormonplower]

My thoughts during the first 15 seconds: That doesnt work at all.

My thoughts during the last 15 seconds: Holy shit! Thats brilliant.

[Ali Makaveli]

My penis should work like that

[rubberbandman200]

nazi!!!

[DanieleGiorgino]

This fills me with great joy.

[XtremeBordom]

Worst HD ever.

[KrozMcD]

I can almost taste the cancer from here.

[piccard1976]

dat ketchup pouring ...