These everyday items are like you’ve never seen them before thanks to Scan of the Month 3D scanners.
See the image above? You might think it’s something straight out of Tron or Blade Runner, but it’s actually a CT scan of a Heinz ketchup bottle cap. You read it right! A group of “very inquisitive engineers”have fun scanning very different objects every month to give us the opportunity to discover the marvels of engineering that surround us every day.
These everyday items are like you’ve never seen them before.
The team’s latest batch of scans includes a Heinz ketchup bottle cap, which took at least 185,000 hours of work and 45 prototypes to develop by its inventor. This is a very intricate knot that allows ketchup to be stored upside down without leaking. This design has even been licensed to NASA to create watertight containers for their astronauts.
In addition to this Heinz bottle cap, the team also scanned the spout of a Sriracha hot sauce bottle with its distinctive design. The engineers also scanned the Vita Coco bottle cap, confirming that the coil inside remains completely intact until the mini-saw does its thing when you first open it. Who knew food packaging could be so much fun?
Thanks to Scan of the month 3D scanners
In December, the team scanned three different AirPods to show how Apple’s wireless earbuds have evolved. You can see how the tech giant has redesigned internal components year after year to create a completely new design for every generation. A month later, engineers released scans of portable consoles Nintendo, Game Boy. to the Switch. Seeing the very first Game Boy processor, which seemed to be less efficient than the TI-83 calculator, you can appreciate technological evolutions. Finally, in February, we were introduced to several instant cameras from Polaroid and Fujifilm, showing the world their intricate innards and demonstrating how these small devices can print on large media.
If you’re interested, you can find all the 3D scans on their website, where all their future collections will be posted for sure.