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Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours

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Tasty TV: Japanese professor creates flavourful screen

A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multi-sensory viewing experience.
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A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multi-sensory viewing experience.

The device, called Taste the TV (TTTV), uses a carousel of 10 flavour canisters that spray in combination to create the taste of a particular food. The flavour sample then rolls on hygienic film over a flat TV screen for the viewer to try.


In the COVID-19 era, this kind of technology can enhance the way people connect and interact with the outside world, said Meiji University professor Homei Miyashita.
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:o :whistle:


Dem implications...
 
Anyone else thinking back to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory? I mean, I'm personally imagining the guy behind this having saw that whole 'Taste the flavor!' skit and went CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
 
Man, if there's one thing that needs to be invented in the time of COVID, it's this.
 
Yuck. Unsanitary and weird as heck. Also shudder to think what would happen in households with dogs and a homeowner who watches the Food Channel.
 
if you can print the taste on a film, why not just dispense the film

i swear to god japan
 
It's a step in odd direction but there is scientific use for it. I'm sure. Probably.
 
I am entirely unsurprised that from all the places in the world, it's Japan that invents this
 
I've played enough games that the first thing that came to mind was "Product not recommended for use with games containing zombies or a Sewer Level".
 
Thank god this finally came along. Regular old TV screen flavor wasn't doing it for me anymore.
 
Maybe if they divorce the taste from the screen put it on a bite plane instead and then connect it to VR. Then it could bring us one step closer to 100% escaping from this reality.
 
As you'd expect, the TV Thing seems to mostly be a goofy stunt, but when I looked at this guy's most recent paper, it seems like his research is mostly in dealing with how exactly tastebuds work as like, electrochemical sensors.

The actual use case he seems to be more serious about as a real thing to actually sell, is a electrically powered utensil that makes food taste sweeter or saltier. So like, a spoon that makes food taste saltier, without having to actually add more salt. Low-sodium ramen with full flavor, that sort of thing.
 
daniel_gudman said:
As you'd expect, the TV Thing seems to mostly be a goofy stunt, but when I looked at this guy's most recent paper, it seems like his research is mostly in dealing with how exactly tastebuds work as like, electrochemical sensors.

The actual use case he seems to be more serious about as a real thing to actually sell, is a electrically powered utensil that makes food taste sweeter or saltier. So like, a spoon that makes food taste saltier, without having to actually add more salt. Low-sodium ramen with full flavor, that sort of thing.
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That's a lot more interesting than the TV thingy because unlike the article above, that doesn't rely on flavor canisters being sprayed around. That opens the door to VR taste as something you don't have to buy and stock up. Even if for now it's just sweet or salty.
 
Cloak&Dagger said:
Not only would there be, it would be one of, if not THE first. Porn is usually on the cutting edge of technology.
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For good reason - good way of making a profit off a thing that's not working well enough yet for more discerning/consequential uses (and work out bugs in the process).

You see a lot of children's toys of new tech first in the pipeline for similar reasons.
 
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