Japanese Professor Invents Lickable TV Screen that Imitates Food Flavours
- Japanese Professor Homei Miyashita has created a TV screen meant to be licked so as to taste different flavours
- The product, called Taste-the-TV, is still a prototype and could cost Ghc5,384 should it go into production
- The scholar said he envisions a world whereby people could download any flavour and taste it
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A prototype TV screen that can be licked to taste different food flavours has been developed.
Source: UGC
Tasting flavours on TV screen
The product, dubbed Taste-the-TV, was developed by Professor Homei Miyashita of Meiji University in Japan.
Reuters reports that the TV features ten canisters with flavour applied to a film which is then placed over the screen so the viewer can lick it.
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If made commercial, the TV would cost about Ghc5,384.
“The goal is to make it possible for people to have the experience of something like eating at a restaurant on the other side of the world, even while staying at home," he told the publication.
The professor said he envisages a world of downloadable "taste content".
Miyashita further said that during the Covid-19 period, such technology could enhance the way people connect.
Netizens react
The invention caught the attention of many netizens, who reacted to it by writing:
@SamTwum:
“Is this meant for the visually impaired when watching cooking shows or something more adult?"
@KnoxLightGuy:
“The start of the new pandemic was traced to a lickable television screen.”
@WeeliyumF:
“My television screens have always been lickable. They taste like TV.”
@dearmeadowsky:
“It's highly likely that this invention will get abused.”
Ugali cooking machine
In other news, YEN.com.gh reported that a Kakamega man invented a machine that cooks ugali in three minutes.
Ugali, a dish made out of maize flour, is Kenya's staple food. A video of the invention showed the man mixing flour and water in a sufuria before stirring the thick mixture using what looked like a paint mixer.
It caused quite a stir online, with some netizens saying it would not work.
“Ugali cannot be ready in three minutes. So you can attain uniformity in mixing, but you will not have well-cooked ugali.
The heat needs to get to the centre of the mound. Take it from the experts,” one netizen wrote.
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