Not every college student is going to be the one who cures cancer or creates some remarkable panacea. Still, little things count and can make a lasting impact in the way society operates, whether it'd be generic household products or innovative, cheap ways to generate electricity.
Enter, the stick-less ketchup bottle.
Recently, a team of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created a substance called "LiquiGlide" that could potentially save one-million tons of food from being thrown out each year.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the students created a bottle that the ketchup inside of it cannot stick to, ultimately ending the excessive amount of time people spend shaking ketchup bottles and saving costs for families and business that use the tomato-based condiment on a regular basis.
MIT doctorate degree seeker David Smith told Yahoo that LiquiGlide is "kind of a structured liquid-it's rigid like a solid, but it's lubricated like a liquid."
Based on this composition, ketchup will easily flow out of a bottle lined with LiquiGlide, he said.
MIT is not the only school seeking to end ketchup-conservation woes. Harvard University students are also working to create a plant-derived condiment bottle with hopes to produce the same effect as LiquiGlide, the Telegraph reports.
Aside from ending ketchup frustrations, students across the country are working on ways to solve other small, but pertinent issues.
Students at New York University created CitySlips, The Huffington Post reports, which are small ballet flats that can easily fold up to fit in women's purses, making them practical to use after a night it heels.
On the other side of the globe, Harvard University students studying in Africa recognized the continent's love for soccer and its struggle to obtain electricity. So they created the "Soccket" ball, which uses a magnet and coil to produce electricity. By kicking this ball around for 15 minutes, players can create enough energy to power an LED light for three hours, according to the Post.
