See that image up there? It could seem like one thing out of Tron or Blade Runner, nevertheless it’s truly a CT scan — of a Heinz ketchup cap. A gaggle of “deeply curious engineers” is scanning various kinds of objects each month to present us a deeper appreciation of assorted engineering marvels surrounding us in on daily basis life. The latest batch of scans features a Heinz squeeze-bottle cap that took its inventor 185,000 hours and 45 prototypes to finalize. It’s fairly a posh meeting, which permits for the ketchup to be saved upside-down with out leaking — the design was even licensed to NASA to create leak-proof containers for its astronauts.

In addition to the Heinz bottle cap, the staff additionally scanned a Sriracha nozzle that had such a particular design, the household behind the new sauce selected to trademark it. The engineers scanned a Vita Coco bottle cap, as nicely, confirming that the foil inside does certainly stay intact till the cap’s miniature noticed does its job while you open it for the primary time. Who knew meals packaging might be this fascinating?

Back in December, the staff scanned three different AirPods to indicate how Apple’s wi-fi earbuds have developed. You’ll see how the tech large saved rearranging the earbuds’ inside parts through the years, giving every technology an entire redesign. A month later, the staff uploaded scans of Nintendo’s handheld consoles from the Game Boy to the Switch. Seeing the unique Game Boy’s processor, which was apparently slower than a TI-83 calculator’s, gives you a brand new appreciation of how far handheld gaming has come. Finally, in February, the staff scanned a handful of Polaroid and Fujifilm instant cameras, showcasing their complicated inside parts and the way the small gadgets can print on fairly massive movies.

 You can see all all staff’s 3D scans on their website, the place all future initiatives will most definitely be uploaded.