They develop a screen called Taste The TV that allows you to lick it and feel flavors

A Japanese professor named Homei Miyashita has created a device he calls “Taste the TV,” a touch screen that lets you experience flavors, and hopefully lets people experience flavors through it. He’s already visualizing ideas like going to world-class restaurants far away without leaving home.

According to a demonstration video, researchers mixed various foods together and used sensors to “taste” them. Chemicals are then sprayed onto a roll-up plastic sheet or disposable tray to avoid hygiene issues, in combinations that recreate the taste. The sheet is spread over the screen so you can lick those chemicals off, and is removed once you’re done for easy disposal.

You can lick the screen that will taste like a restaurant dish

The video they posted shows many practical ideas on how TTTV could be used. They see it as a way to test the flavors of a sommelier training menu or as a device that allows adding cookie flavor. Miyashita thinks she could make a commercial version of Taste the TV for $ 875, according to Reuters.

He also hopes that there will be a market for apps, and even TV shows that allow you to sample the dishes at home. Although that would require more support from chains and entertainment producers.

Although this is something very experimental, and both because of its initial price and that it is very likely that you will have to buy spare parts for the necessary aromas, it could be like the printer market, where you buy a printer at cost price and ink cartridges, this instead of aromas; they count much more than their real cost to obtain greater benefits. But this can also remain a curiosity, and a technology that will remain in very reserved spaces and not intended for use outside the most professional field.

Source: Reuters