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Food Packaging
- tillcarlos 5y agoThat’s a lot of effort being put into this website (not to speak of the scans themselves). Does anyone know how they monetize this page? Or is it just a hobby project?
- mensetmanusman 5y agoBelieve it is marketing for the tech.
- Teracotage 5y agoAnd to justify the prices, I paid more for a S. Korean glass jar that has a neat cap, than the price of the olive oil I stored in it.
- ddingus 5y agoContent marketing for scanning tech.
- metal_am 5y agoI’m really wondering about this too. If it were an OEM or service provider, I would expect them to advertise the capabilities of their brand/company.
- ada1981 5y agoSo curious about how they achieve the visuals on this.
- whiterabbit797 5y agoPossibly threeJs.
- 32kfjh23 5y agoLottieFiles.
- 32kfjh23 5y agoit's a webflow site using lottiefiles gifs linked to your scroll position that choose what frame of the gif you're showing idk how they went from 3d data to those images, I'd imagine whatever scanning software they use exports a lot of frames and then you can put those frames together in something like after effects and just export a gif use wappalyzer extension to figure it technologies in the future
- ed 5y agoSounds like there's a market for scanofthemonth.comofthemonth.com
- ggm 5y agoThere's a book from 25+ years ago on the design of cardboard boxes which goes to similar levels of obsessive detail. Part Art college, design school, industrial design and part coffee table book. Cardboard, it's origami for industry: sheet form, now optimise assembly, cost and structural integrity alongside ease of production...
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 5y agoWhich book ?
- ggm 5y agoI wish I could remember. My mum used to bring these things home from the art college library on long loan. It was by an industry professional, on the processes to design efficient boxes, packing, cardboard constructions. I can't find it online.
- codetrotter 5y agoThe library possibly has her loan history still. You could ask her to check with them if they could find out for you. Mostly for your own sake I mean. But if you do find out then please let us know too :)
- Teracotage 5y agoThis should do https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/ https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/
- Teracotage 5y agoThis website has templates for packaging https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/ https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/
- jihadjihad 5y agoWhen I was in high school, we had a hands-on project in geometry for making nets, which is the name of the geometrical outline of a box when disassembled and laid flat [0]. I remember my teacher saying that if you wanted to make it big with geometry, you should go into the business of making nets for retail companies. All these years later I can see the wisdom. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_(polyhedron) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_(polyhedron)
- rathi2601 5y agoAmazing!
- adewinter 5y agoIt's weird that CT scans cost hundreds (thousands?) of dollars when used in medicine but at the airport everyone's baggage is routinely scanned for approx. $free. Is the hardware and software needed for CT scans really that expensive or not?
- Traubenfuchs 5y agoA private full body cancer search MRT (the most expensive diagnostic I could find) costs 1340€ in Germany, many common use cases much less (340 for a joint). Naturally it‘s free if a doctor decides you need one.
- _moof 5y agoAirport baggage scanners are nowhere near the complexity of CT machines. Not even the same kind of device. They also don't have to be designed and certified for human subjects.
- wlesieutre 5y ago> The CT scanner can create 3-D images of the contents of a bag, allowing TSA officers to rotate the images to better analyze the contents. In the future, the CT scanner may allow passengers to leave laptops and liquids inside of their carry-on bags, TSA officials say. https://www.courant.com/la-fi-ct-scanners-20180730-story.html https://www.courant.com/la-fi-ct-scanners-20180730-story.htm...
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- miketery 5y agoI think it's several reasons. One more complicated machine. Two higher paid professionals. And finally healthcare is a racket in the US (cost to value wise).
- ramraj07 5y agoPeople are saying it’s not the same but counterpoint: An MRI scan in a state of the art facility in Chennai India in at least 50 different facilities costs 2000-4000 Rupees or $26. The machines cost the same if not more here due to import duties. Labor is cheap but these labs truly compete with each other and that’s what drives the price down. So please acknowledge that the healthcare system in the US and other places is broken.
- mahastore 5y agoThe planet dies everyday by our creations .. Yet we keep marveling at our creations everyday. Nothing changeth.
- ramraj07 5y agoThat’s because none of us truly want to give up what we have gained. You’re still commenting on a website using a computer or a phone. The only way this will fix is after the planet is truly fully fucked, where no amount of money can protect you from that, then humanity will figure out whacko ways to fix it. Many if not most will suffer indescribably, for sure. But I see no other way this will play out.
- aldebran 5y agoSome people do. 1. Reduce plastic consumption as much as you can. 2. Use reusable bags 3. Choose packaging that contains less plastic. This is truly horrible in the US. Apple sauce containers for kids have so much unnecessary plastic. I mean the ones with the fancy caps that are big only to appeal to kids. And to reduce your carbon footprint further - controversial point incoming - reduce or stop eating meat. “But, aren’t you using a smartphone? Do you not buy X? Do you not use X? Do you drive? Do you travel? … All your points are therefore invalid“ When I’m hungry and someone offers a slice of pizza I don’t say no if I can’t have the entire pie. I take the slice. Start with a step today then take another one tomorrow. Eventually there will be enough of us that we opt to tax companies at the source for using plastics unnecessarily or having a ridiculous carbon footprint. And May be we can have effective carbon capture technologies and better ways to deal with plastic.
- simondotau 5y agoFascinatingly, single use plastic bags are so impossibly thin that you'd have to reuse a reusable bag more times than they're likely to last. I have not seen any data, but I'm willing to bet that our consumption of plastic has increased, with any reduction in single use plastic bags more than offset by an increase in "reusable" bags. If instead of normalising the use of reusable bags, we normalised soft plastics (LDPE) recycling, the planet would probably be in a better condition. A one cent tax per bag would probably be sufficient to pay for it. (And don't get me started about cotton. If you only focus on climate change, cotton isn't too bad. But if you zoom out to look at environmental impact, petroleum doesn't hold a candle to cotton for the devastation of natural habitat, water use, energy use, etc etc etc. One t-shirt or tote bag is likely more environmental impact than all of the soft plastics used by one person in a year.)
- palijer 5y agoIt's incredible that we designed a material for robustness that takes hundreds of years to break down, and it is the default material for designing single use everyday items, and then rely on all the efforts of an ineffective recycling program to maybe get a couple more uses out of it.
- unobatbayar 5y agoWe should maintain Earth as best as we can, but put more efforts into progress, expansion and technology.
- simulate-me 5y agoThe material you’re taking about, plastic, is made from carbon stored inside of the Earth. If we can reliably get it back in the Earth, e.g. via landfill, then I don’t see a huge issue with it. Also, wood was a forever material prior to the evolution of white rot.
- aldebran 5y agoHuman manufactured Wooden objects are not found in remote places on earth. Tiny specs of wood are definitely not found in bodies/blood of humans including infants. Single use wooden items don’t cause flooding and damage wildlife. These are not the same. They don’t have the same problems.
- thetinguy 5y agoTetra Pak is primarily paper.
- ornornor 5y agoSo much so that it has to be recycled using a separate process that many places refuse to adopt in Switzerland. I believe it’s either because it’s too complicated or because you have to license it from tetrapak and it’s too costly. AFAIK its paper, sure but laminated with aluminum and plastic so good luck separating the layers into recyclable stuff. Not that recycling is a panacea in the first place… more like a gimmick to make us feel good about wasting so much instead of questioning the methods of the industries producing all the waste in the first place.
- stickfigure 5y agoWhile this is technology is beautiful, I think it would be easier to visualize how these products work by looking at old-fashioned still pictures of their disassembled parts.
- systemvoltage 5y agoI agree. I think it is visually awesome but that's about it.
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- susrev 5y agowebsite broken for anyone else? "Loading Scan" forever
- fowkswe 5y agoCan someone please focus the same amount of energy that was put into making this visualization into figuring out how to abolish plastic in general?
- morsch 5y agoHeinz Ketchup Cap: may have solved the problem of storing the bottle upside down, but it doesn't solve the problem of 3% of the product remaining in the container and being almost impossible to retrieve. Sriracha Bottle Cap: it's a fun design, but in my experience it tends to turn filthy, sticky and basically break. Kind of terrible, really. Vita Coco Bottle Cap: okay if it works, very annoying if it doesn't. The whole container is a recycling nightmare, fwiw.
- orobinson 5y agoRe the last 3% of ketchup, just cut the bottle in half and scrape the rest out with a spoon.
- ballenf 5y agoBonus is that your sliced finger blood won't mess up the look of the remaining ketchup.
- orobinson 5y agoJust be careful applying the same technique to squeeze mayonnaise bottles…
- lultimouomo 5y agoWhich mayonnaise bottle? It was ketchup I swear!
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- asiachick 5y agoswing it around with your arm as fast as possible, cap side out.
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- collinthecorgi 5y agoMy 2 cents is whatever design it is, packaging should be always serving 2 main purposes: User friendly and Environment friendly.
- serverlessmom 5y agoI just wanted to chime in with a tip for people who are struggling to get every last drop of tasty condiments out of containers. There are tiny rubber condiment spatulas designed to aid you in your quest for total condiment use. They are also useful for skin care products, but I wouldn't suggest using the same ones for both applications.
- mjlee 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_scraper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_scraper a proud Dutch invention!
- meghido10 5y agoAm the only one seeing a 57 in the Heinz cap scan ?
- unwind 5y agoClearly a reference to [1] but I'm too lazy to go and check if it's visible to the naked eye. If not, fun design and weird that there was no comment by the scanning folks. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_57
- meghido10 5y agomaybe it's printed on the thin film you remove to open the cap. really dont know
- tecleandor 5y agoSome of the heinz bottles have a small relief in the top of the cap, kinda like this: http://flyosity.com/design/ketchup-bottles-the-physicality-of-design.php http://flyosity.com/design/ketchup-bottles-the-physicality-o... That's why it appears in the scan.
- thomasguide 5y agoThis is very interesting, but I can’t help but feel that a glass bottle with a metal cap (and one of those Dutch condiment spatulas) would be just fine for all these applications and also be more easily and effectively reused and recycled. I re-use jam jars for food storage, drinking glasses, mini herb gardens, etc. and could incorporate bottles, jars, and other glass containers into a variety of needs around the house if they were designed with second and third lives in mind. Add in health effects of microplastics/chemical leaching and glass is again a winner. Transportation costs and breakage are perhaps higher, but maybe that’s a cost we should accept?
- KennyBlanken 5y agoThat sound you heard was me rolling my eyes at the bunch of nonsense they started off with, which seemed sucked straight from the mouth of a plastics industry PR lackey. The squeeze nipple thingy is pretty brilliant, but an ecological disaster.
- thomasguide 5y agoAs a cook I find the squeeze actually sort of frustrating. Sometimes it usefully delivers the right amount of ketchup (or mustard, or whatever) to its destination; mostly it splatters. In any case I still have to use a knife to spread it around. Solving the leaky bottle upside down problem is too narrow a focus.
- jhugo 5y agoThe trick is to give the bottle a vigorous single shake before opening it, so the air is at the end away from the nozzle. Then there's no splattering.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoMcDonalds does that with cardridges in a (don't know the exact word) squeeze gun, and it mostly comes out in the same volume. They also had funnels for ketchup and mustard, where you pushed once, and got more or less the same amounts per push.
- kkfx 5y agoThe main packaging issue is the single-use target. In the past we have had a concept and an industry about recycling packages in various ways but to "simply" and "make things more efficient so profitable" we decide that a single-use solution is better. That's was true in an age of raw material abundance where a light and disposable package means less transportation cost, simple infrastructures, less distributed human labor requirements etc. You can pack milk in a factory and directly ship it to stores where the only need is putting them on some supermarket shelf. In the past there is a need for glass bottles who are fragile and heavyweight, they need to be cleaned up, there is an industry to wash/recycle them, many stages in line etc... The result of modern food packaging is that we are able to concentrate stuff, few big factories in exotic places, more products on shelves, cheaper product. However now we start seeing that such efficient move is not sustainable... I bet in the future we will came back somewhat, and such move will hurt MUCH...
- brnt 5y agoAnd yet, I wish none of my packages had these, and would let me cut a corner off or stick to simple caps. I must have underdeveloped motor skills, but if there is one guaranteed thing to happen is that ketchup sprays everywhere, dosage caps get clogged and dry out, caps are placed such that I can't get all contents out, etc. etc. For me, none of them work. And they often seem like an expensive component.
- amelius 5y ago> Every time you open the refrigerator, a heroic engineering effort looks back at you. Yeah but the biggest effort went into making it cheap.
- declanjscott 5y agoSecond paragraph: “Behind each plastic bottle cap is a careful engineering process that balances cost, user experience, and manufacturability at massive scale.”
- anotherboffin 5y agoPretty incredible work for stuff that’s just going to end up incinerated or in a landfill…