New Delhi: A professor in Japan has developed a prototype likeable TV screen that can mimic the taste of food.
The device, named ‘Taste the TV (TTTV)’, has a carousel of 10 flavor canisters to create the flavor of a particular food, Reuters reported.
Flavors from the canisters are sprayed in combination to create flavor, and the sampler then rolls onto a clean film on a flat TV screen that viewers can lick.
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The innovation is being seen as another step towards a multi-sensory viewing experience.
The report quoted Professor Homi Miyashita of Meiji University as saying that such technology could improve the way people connect with the outside world in the era of Kovid-19.
“The goal is to make it possible for people to experience eating at a restaurant on the other side of the world, even while at home,” he was quoted as saying.
Miyashita has a team of 30 students working on taste-related instruments. The report states that they have already designed a fork that makes the food tastier.
Although Miyashita said he had built the TTTV prototype himself over the past year, the commercial version would cost around $875 to build.
According to the report, he is in talks with companies that could use his spray technology for devices that can apply chocolate or pizza flavor to a slice of bread.
Miyashita’s food vision includes creating a platform where users can download flavors from around the world, just as music is enjoyed now.
While performing TTTV for reporters, a student from Meiji said that she wanted the screen to taste sweet chocolate. An automated voice repeated the command, and flavor jets sprayed a sample onto a plastic sheet.
“It’s like milk chocolate,” she was quoted as saying.
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