When dosing out the extra virgin olive oil (evoo to Rachael Ray fans) or the sesame seed oil, I am always careful not to spill a precious drop. Both oils are unrefined and have strong flavours. Both oils tend to be expensive. To this end, I have been eying one of those metal tipped oil dispensers with the ceramic bottles. Does it prevent light from oxidizing the oil? Yes. Does it allow two of my favourite finishing ingredients to be easily accessible? Yes. Does it prevent drips? Not really. Even with the thin metal spout, there's gonna be drip-page.

Enter the dripless bottle from behance.net's Noro portfolio. Noro is located in Barcelona, Spain and specializes in design (industrial and otherwise), photography, graffiti, arts, and writing. I am currently somewhat confused as to whether or not Noro is one person or multiple people. Whatever the case, Noro's dripless bottle is a simple and elegant design. With its concentric lips, should the dispensing lip drip, droplets will simply fall onto the secondary lip and flow back into the bottle. The bottle retains its standard shape and functionality.

Unfortunately, according to posters at Digg.com, the design may not be original. The Danish designer, Eva Solo, seems to have come up with the same design in 2002. Hers employed a rubber stopper. It was awarded multiple awards, including Form 2002, Design Plus 2003, and Red Dot 2003.



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