**Terence Eden** @Edent@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2021, 17:33

**Terence Eden** @Edent@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2021, 17:33

Terence Eden @Edent@mastodon.social

What small inventions did you think we'd have by now?
I'm not talking personal jetpacks or holographic TV.

I'm talking hydrophobic ketchup bottles that get out every drop.
Or something more durable than velco.

What is our future missing?

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · 2021-11-05T20:07:02Z

Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@Edent isn't hydrophobic just for water, where as ketchup is a mix of chemicals and has a different viscosity, But yes, that would be a good idea,

Maybe using a bottle is wrong, perhaps we need a different mechanism.

**Terence Eden** @Edent@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2021, 20:08

**Terence Eden** @Edent@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2021, 20:08

Terence Eden @Edent@mastodon.social

@zleap I don't know the word for ketchupphobic 😆

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Nov 05, 2021, 20:11

**Paul Sutton** @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org · Nov 05, 2021, 20:11

Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

So perhaps what is needed is a coating on the bottle that makes the ketchup molecules less attractive, so they repelled, so in theory won't stick.

Such coaching can't be absorbed in to the ketchup either or affect it chemically otherwise those chemicals could end up inside us as people.

Could make an interesting high school research project :D