Virtually Non-Stick Gum Created

An anonymous reader writes "A new polymer has been developed by Professor Terence Cosgrove that allows for a non-sticky gum. In testing the gum was removed by weather while the competitor's gum was not removed 4 out of 5 times. The BBC reports: 'The company now needs to get its polymer accepted as a food product by passing EU health and safety tests. It can then go on sale. Professor Cosgrove says he is hopeful that the gum will pass them, and says the product could be on the market as early as next year, either as a Revolymer product or through a partnership with one of the major chewing gum manufacturers.'"

Comments

Hopeful?

[Anonymous Coward]

When it comes to health & safety tests, I'd feel a little better about it if the developer was *confident* his product would pass.

Re:Hopeful?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd mod this funny. Last time I swallowed gum, it passed just fine.

I invented such a thing once

[Tablizer]

...I called it "Potato".

One problem

[Tablizer]

Then what the hell are we gonna stick in a girl's hair when we're bored in class? Now we'll hafta start dating them or something.

Re:One problem

[MadUndergrad]

Hmm....something to get in a girl's hair....that's sticky, and hard to get out......nope, nothing coming to me.

Re:One problem

[Anonymous Coward]

nothing coming to me. Well there's your problem!

Re:Shame it's stuck to the FP

[Tablizer]

This was on /. yesterday

Guess the story is not sticky enough, eh?

-1 bad pun

Oh Noes

[pipingguy]

This is such a sad development for the indoctrination of new students. So much history used to exist for newcomers in the long-respected tradition of sticking gum to the underside of desks. "New World Order" indeed. Puck Yoy!

In other news...

[jez9999]

... Singapore police begin strong lobbying to ban this dangerous substance from their streets.

There are easier ways to get gum out

[ravnous]

Why don't you freeze it with an ice cube, and hit it with a hammer? Works for me when I get bubbly-gum in the old push-broom.

Good Luck...

[conares]

...McGyver, the next time you need to repair the wings on a flying plane you wont be doing it with chewinggum

Does gum lose flavor on bedpost overnight?

[davidwr]

Now we can answer the eternal question

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight? Answer: I don't know. It fell off.

Re:No one will buy gum because it's non-stick

[jackbird]

Maybe it'll be legal in Singapore.

Your Problem

[Doc Ruby]

Yes, of course I want to chew plastic, because it's not sticky.

Just like smokers everywhere have switched from smoking burning cigarettes to chewing tobacco, because chewing means others aren't bothered by the smoke and butt litter.

Re:No one will buy gum because it's non-stick

[Dogtanian]

I've never seen any of it. You evidently don't watch any commercial TV then; otherwise you must have seen the saturation ads for "Trident" gum (remember the ones that had Jamaican types yelling "mastication for the nation" until people complained that they were stereotypical, which were replaced with some twats tying themselves to factory gates and skydiving?).

Either that or you don't actually live in the UK ;-)

Re:Shame it's stuck to the FP

[Anonymous Coward]

Gum, the only product that lets you find women with oral fixations and no smoker breath. It should be free of charge :)