The Bottle-Can

A New Twist on the Humble Can

[digitalghost]

A reclosable can and it's coming soon:

[taipeitimes.com...]

(just click cancel when it asks you to install a language pack, site renders fine)

[ukgimp]

>>editor-in-chief of London-based The Canmaker magazine

And people think we are geeks......

I bet that is a riveting read

[wkitty42]

what's she looking at?

[digitalghost]

For anyone that grew up in the 70s and wroked on cars the bottle-can probably looks familiar. Looks just like a can of brake fluid...

[jbinbpt]

Cone top soda cans have been around since 1938. They were phased out in the late 1950's. Cone tops [canconnection.com]

The difference now is that these have screw off caps.

[lawman]

Drink makers in the US and Europe are vying to get their hands on the new technology,

Hmmmm, does the combining of two existing technologies equal a new technology? :)

lawman

[ScottM]

Chocolate + peanut butter = Reeses.

I guess so.

[TheDoctor]

{quote]does the combining of two existing technologies equal a new technology?[/quote]

hypertext + internet = world-wide web

[Fiver]

that's it, I'm filing a patent on pull tab bottles this second.

[lawman]

I know the definition of "technology" and so in the strictest terms, combining a screw top with a bottle is "technology". But when the word is used, most people think of "high technology".

A few years ago my beautiful wife and I were shopping for a king size bed. We went to Rhodes then to Haverty's. Rhodes had Simmons and Haverty's was pushing Serta. The Serta salesman was dressed to the nines and had a condescending attitude towards Rhodes and to his customer. He began talking about the differences in technology between the Simmons and Serta. According to him, Simmons was using "old technology".

Insofar as I was concerned, I bought the one that felt better to lie on - it was the one with the "old technology". And besides, I thought the guy spouting off about mattress technology was an ass. :)

lawman

[mivox]

Mattress technology. Oooh. New advances in springs and foam padding are about as technologically thrilling as using brake fluid cans for soda...

Now, a laptop computer that's 1/32" thinner than its competitor, or a processor thats 1% faster than the other brand, or a car that tops out 250% above the speed limit instead of a mere 225%... THOSE are some technological distinctions to hyperventilate about!

[PatrickDeese]

Industry watchers question whether consumers outside Japan will be willing to pay more for a bottle-can that costs about twice as much as an ordinary aluminum can.

so... instead of costing $.01 they will cost $.02 per unit?

[werty]

Those space foam mattresses seem pretty amazing. I want to test drive one. If it could make my 3hours of sleep seem like 8 I would invest.

Patrick, you also have to add in the cost of entirely "re-tooling" the can/bottling plants. Plus the giant marketing hype of why we 'need' to drink from these can-bottles VS. the can or bottle.

I cannot imagine the volume that coke/pepsi deals with... 1-2 cents more per can would add up to millions(billions?).

I wonder how this would impact the environment. I assume aluminum is far easier to recycle than plastic.

I would totally drink PBR from a bottle-can.

[lawman]

PBR? Bwaaahaaaahaaaa snicker snicker. :)

[mivox]

Yeah... lawman wouldn't drink anything more down-market than (*guffaw*) Coors Light out of such a container... ;)

(I admit to once drinking a 40oz PBR. But when you're in a punk guy's apartment, and they gather up the spare change and offer to buy a round at 4 in the afternoon, it's just rude to say, "No, that's crap beer.")