Within a glossy black box, covering it is like any other product a straw. Defined by its developers as Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, designed to mix the black-and-tan-esque strata of McDonald’s new dual-layer Chocolate Shamrock Shake in perfect proportion. “ My first reaction was, that doesn’t seem too hard. We could have a double straw–one longer, one shorter. No problem ,” says Seth Newburg, principal engineer, and managing partner at NK Labs, which teamed up with JACE Design on the STRAW STRAW The STRAW resembles saxophone or a fish hook. “A lot of designs we came up with would work well when the shake was full, or might work when the shake was empty, but in a lot of situations, we found if we didn’t get the diameters just right, we’d end up drawing in air, or the first few sips would be good, but you had to wait a minute for the straw to be recharged,” Newburg says. The breakthrough happened in a whiteboarding session. “One of o...
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