Current Events > a Japanese professor has created a prototype "lickable" TV screen

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*imagines the implications*

https://streamable.com/ffxph9

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.

"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 said.

Miyashita works with a team of about 30 students that has produced a variety of flavour-related devices, including a fork that makes food taste richer. He said he built the TTTV prototype himself over the past year and that a commercial version would cost about 100,000 yen ($875) to make.

Potential applications include distance learning for sommeliers and cooks, and tasting games and quizzes, he said.

Miyashita has also been in talks with companies about using his spray technology for applications like a device that can apply a pizza or chocolate taste to a slice of toasted bread.

He also hopes to make a platform where tastes from around the world can be downloaded and enjoyed by users, much like music is now.

One Meiji student demonstrated TTTV for reporters, telling the screen she wanted to taste sweet chocolate. After a few tries, an automated voice repeated the order and flavour jets spritzed a sample onto a plastic sheet.

"It's kind of like milk chocolate," she said. "It's sweet like a chocolate sauce."

($1 = 114.1900 yen)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/lick-it-up-japan-professor-creates-tele-taste-tv-screen-2021-12-23/

The possibilities

But do the snozberries taste like snozberries?

vegy be like
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/7/9/AAIY7IAACu5b.jpg

how long til I get to taste my favorite 2d girl's booty sweat?

You're not really licking the screen you're just drinking the squirt.

"Hey man, did you taste [insert name here] on the tv last night?"

"Hell yeah I did!!!"

Tyranthraxus posted...

You're not really licking the screen you're just drinking the squirt.

when you put it like that...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/0/AADOeMAABFzC.jpg

Hent..I mean anime has just gotten a lot better.

People's minds are gonna jump to the gutter but this has a lot of possibilities. Sellers could probably use it to get people to sample what their food tastes like.

The future of ASMR but with smells.

Imagine the bugs, and germ spreading potential!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5gTx1fVU4

The Nintendo Lick

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/1/AANKsdAACu6P.jpg

PBusted posted...

People's minds are gonna jump to the gutter but this has a lot of possibilities. Sellers could probably use it to get people to sample what their food tastes like.

Essentially drink verification can to continue

You can lick a TV screen right now it just doesnt taste like anything other then maybe electricity.

I can finally taste my waifu

PBusted posted...

People's minds are gonna jump to the gutter but this has a lot of possibilities. Sellers could probably use it to get people to sample what their food tastes like.

Eh, I doubt it could ever be that sofisticated. The flavors are purely chemical so they would probably be way off from the actual food. Seems kinda like a dumb idea imo

Didnt they have this tech decades ago regardless? I remember seeing something similar on a show called beyond tomorrow pre 2005

not implemented in consumer technology mind you but tech that could simulate taste

I remember they tried a cracker or something and you could tell the difference between the real and simulated version. Which is fair since it was barebones back then but I cant imagine a new version in a TV screen accurately simulating a more complex taste. Not yet anyway

Gonna be pornified for sure

Taste gamer girl booty sweat

Well I was going to make an anime girl joke, but my cultured friends already have it covered. Good day.

Dreepapult posted...

Gonna be pornified for sure

Taste gamer girl booty sweat

Brb...buying url combinations related to that.

bump

berlyman101 posted...

how long til I get to taste my favorite 2d girl's booty sweat?

It's just gonna spray printer ink man.

My son licks normal TVs.

Its weird and gross and hes left tongue prints on the TV in the lounge room

https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd6FGLxB/

Japan always gets the best stuff.

Finally, the snozzberries will taste like snozzberries

strawberry flavored lolicon anime

eww

>_<

i was gonna ask "why would anyone want to do that" but im not sure if i wanna know the answer to that... lol

one more~

Hello darkness my old friend