New, Non-Stick Chewing Gum Invented

It may not be your typical "gadget", per se, but this new chewing gum is worth a quick look. Just as the title indicates, it is non-stick gum, specifically. This doesn't mean that the gum is in some form other than the stick shape, but rather, it won't adhere to anything. For example, how many times have you walked the city streets just to step into a big, pink gum wad?

So who's behind all this? A guy by the name of Professor Terence Cosgrove, a British chemist. Professor Cosgrove's company has apparently made a cheap polymer which will make the resulting gum hydrophilic. This means that the gum will essentially get along with water, where other chewing gums hate it. Why do we care? No more sticky, that's why.

Quite literally, this gum will [and does] simply dissolve in water. In any testing up to this point, the gum has been successfully removed from surfaces -  even hair - using only H2O.

With permission, this gum was tested on pavements in Bristol and North Wales. It should come as no surprise that your average, leading gums stayed stuck three out of four times. However, this new gum was gone within 24 hours, just by natural events.

So it's a new, less sticky gum because of a new ingredient. That immediately makes me wonder if the gum tastes awful, even though it's better for the environment. Yet interestingly enough, they say the taste has not been affected. Even in blind tests, the gum came out scoring high. Our inventors went to the trouble to call in a gum expert from Italy just to get a proper evaluation of the "mouth feel, taste, texture and so on."

Overall, I'm really impressed. The taste is right, it won't stick to your shoe, and it's the most guilt-free gum you can spit out. I guess the only thing I can say is, don't drink water while you're chewing this stuff. Plans are to release this gum sometime next year, so look out for it.

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