Revolymer develops new non-stick chewing gum
By Darren Murph 
posted Sep 14th 2007 11:44PM
posted Sep 14th 2007 11:44PM
Nah, Revolymer's latest concoction won't play music or record your favorite shows, but if it passes European health and safety tests, it could end up in your mouth before long. The Bristol University spin-out company "claims that it has created a new material (dubbed Rev7) which can be added to gum that makes it much easier to remove from surfaces," and in testing, it actually "vanished from street surfaces within 24 hours," presumably from rain or street sweepers whisking it away. Moreover, the newfangled gum would even dissolve quicker than traditional pieces, and if all goes as planned, it could be launched as "early as next year." Shoe soles, rejoice.[Via NewScientist]
Yay, my soles can finally walk the streets in safety...soon.
doesn't this invention defeat the purpose of gum?
I'm pretty sure MacGuyver isn't going to endorse this.
There's no u in MacGyver.
He'd come up with a special use for this too. Like holding something together while water ran over it for some kind of timed release. Hey, who knows. Maybe if you mix it with kerosene you get plastic explosives.
Man, if that dude wasn't a special agent, he'd for sure be on the no-fly list...
"Moreover, the newfangled gum would even dissolve quicker than traditional pieces, and if all goes as planned, it could be launched as "early as next year.""
Good news for those people in the Stride commercials.
Damn, I came up with this years ago! All you gotta do is add teflon! :-P
Yea, but then he has to get company's to add this to there gum.
Holy, sweet mother-of-God!
"company's"? "there"?
That was almost painful to read. Back to grammar school with you POST HASTE!!
Boy, I miss Hubba Bubba...
Nice.
*Side effects may include: nausea, dizziness, anal leakage, confusion, paranoia, increased blood pressure, heart palpitations, erectile dysfunction, birth defects, cancer, and death.
... discoloration of your skin, hair, eyes, or teeth is also a possibility.
Revolymer is not responsible for loss of limbs, teeth, hair, or other health defects, related illnesses, or other injuries. We are absolved of all legal lawsuits pertaining to our product.
Thank you and enjoy Rev7!
You could just chew a condom like Beldar.
http://www.remotecentral.com/dvd/coneheads-3.jpg
...Technology blog?
yes.....and this article is about the technological advances in chewing gum.....
Wait, if this makes the gum able of dissolving, what happens when you put it in an aqueous environment such as, just as an example, a mouth?
I love your site and I would love to win.
win what?
This is good news for kids that swallow gum and end up with it in their gut for years, unless that is an old tall tale.
False.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_gum#Health_claims
actually, karts, nowhere does it say anything about that under Health Concerns...
http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/chewgum.asp
It IS an old wives tale -
Actually, citing wikipedia and snopes does NOT convince me, but in this case I do tend to agree. The "7 years" part smacks of falsehood. Just a funny thought, I doubt swallowing old school or new fangled gum ends up actually benefiting your health.
It's not an old wife's tale, it's an old pre-schoolers tale.
wouldn't your saliva dissolve thew gum in your mouth
My first thought: Teachers will have no more excuses for not allowing gum in class.
Wasn't Hubba-Bubba Gum NON-Stick (relatively)?
Have you ever had gum dissolve in your mouth from chewing it for too long? Some brands become a disgusting paste that needs to be scraped from your tongue. I wonder if this breaks down like that. If so, I wouldn't consider it happening faster a selling point.
Hopes for chewing gums in Singapore! The city state banned the sales and import of the gum since 1992.
that's what i call technology well used
Yes it was banned in our country because there were too many people abusing it.
Sticking it on our world class mass rapid transport system trains and buses. What idiots, I am glad we banned it.
Kinda sad though, as we have to go across the border to bring in some, sometimes.
And no, it is not illegal to consume it, it is the SALES of gum that is.
It's a shame that your "world class" transport exists in one of the more unpleasantly repressive countries in the world. It's even more of a shame that the UK's going that way, but our buses still suck.
I beg your pardon.
First of all, the words world and class should not be put in quotation marks since it is a fact, not something that is not true.
Secondly, I do not believe Singapore is a repressive country. Have you ever been here before? Cite examples please, to justify your claim.
DO NOT GIVE SWEEPING STATEMENTS!
Let me help you with some.
1. We ban strikes.
But do you know how much time and money this has saved us? Strikes are dumb. Unions do the job.
2. We ban public protests that do not have a license.
We are a multi racial society. Imagine the impacts of a racial protest or any other such protests of that nature. We are an extremely small country and you could walk ACROSS the island within a day but then again, the effects of a riot will be devastating.
So please, do not give sweeping statements unless you can think of some examples apart from the two I have given.
And if you feel that just by these two examples, we are a repressive country, you are indeed a jackass.
Gerald
And what can the unions threaten with? Workers staring angrily at the bosses?
Seriously I can't see this as a good thing, the Chinese save a lot of money by oppressing the workforce too.
Although Singapore has a Chinese majority, that doesn't mean that we are like the China mainlanders, certainly not!!
I believe that unions should not use strikes and discuss NICELY about wages and stuff, and not cause widespread disruption to the countries core services and infrastructure that results in losses in excess of millions per day.
Every country should ban strikes.
i end up swallowing my gum anyways.
yuuuummm.
Don't you know that that'll cause a gum tree to grow in your belly? O.o
This is going to be bad for GSPS : GumSpots Positioning System - www.GumSpots.com - Them and GumS Busters should go eat a D*ck.
Violet Beauregarde would not approve of this gum!
I don't get it. What's this got to do with the iphone?
Well what if you stick unlock instructions to the back with some gum?