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We Live In An Age of Wonders

Mysterious Japanese Device Picks Up Ketchup, Replaces It, Blows Minds [Video]

by Max Eddy | 12:36 pm, March 28th, 2011

This cannot possibly be real. No device made by man could possibly pick up and redeposit ketchup and mayonnaise with such ease — nay, grace. This must be some kind of misinformation campaign, or more viral marketing for that Limitless movie.

Assuming that the Internet doesn’t break my heart again, this appears to be an actual product called the SWITL. I don’t know what that means or if it stands for anything, but here’s some awkwardly Google-translated promotional text from the website promoting this fantastical new product.

First! Sol-gel Kuzusazu move work? Revolutionary “machine Sukuiage transferring” development! Original shape even without a breeze moves mayonnaise and ketchup

Suittohando The robot hand was soft work can be handled until now could not handle.Scoop without changing the form of ketchup and mayonnaise and other work, can be moved intact to another location.

Developed the world’s first robot hand, a wide range of industries and technologies and seeds, is also expanding its application fields.

The makers of the SWITL apparently developed it along with other related products for arranging sticky foodstuffs such as bread dough in factories. As near as I can tell, the device has a motorized metal plate that slides forward when activated. Running over this plate is a sheet of paper or some other material. When put against a glob of goo, the paper pulls the goo up and away. It’s clever, and exceptionally simple.

Too simple. There must be dark forces involved in this device somewhere. Someone needs to get a hold of one (or perhaps send it to us?), and reveal its secrets to the world.

(via MetaFilter)

  • Lasha Krikheli

    Conveyer belt.

  • Anonymous

    It seems to be a motorized version of the Super Peel, http://www.superpeel.com/

  • Tomboi1978

    Glad to see it didn’t take very long for peeps to spot this for the fake that it is.

  • Ike

    I came accross this article at an airport lounge.
    my name is Ike, I am the president of Placade Japan Co, Ltd and I am in charge of Exporting Switl from Japan.

    Please check the website I am putting up for this product here
    http://www.made-in-japan.bz/switl

    To explain a bit. The word SWITL should actually be SUITORU. This is a Japanese word that means to scoop, to suck or simply pick up.

    This product is not fake. We are hoping it will solve problems that have hitherto not been thought of. I have already sent a sample to Dubai and I have inquiries from nearly any country you can think of for distributorship.

    For more questions etc, please contact me using the email address on the website link above.
    Thank You


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