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 KSh 99,000 should it go into production
• The scholar said he envisions a world whereby people could download any flavour and taste it

A prototype TV screen that can be licked to taste different food flavours has been developed.

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.

Read also

Beauty celebrates bagging degree, becoming a sangoma all in 2021: 'Thokoza'

If made commercial, the TV would cost about KSh 99,000.

“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.”

Guide on how to cook the perfect ugali recipe

Read also

How's the driver seeing the road? Video of boy fixing faulty car while in motion in Lagos stirs reactions

In other culinary news, Briefly News previously reported that Ugali is the most common staple starch featured in the local cuisines of the African Great Lakes region and Southern Africa. The process of preparing it is easy and can be served with varieties of other dishes.

These include braai, meat, soup, vegetables, ugali samaki, among other accompaniments that go well with it. When ugali is prepared from another form of starch, it is usually given a different name more so from that community. For instance, the Kenyan ugali from the Luhya community is known as Obhusuma.

The dish is usually eaten three or four times a week in most African homes. It goes well with different soups and stews such as ugali nyama. Therefore, every day you can eat it with something different.

Source: Briefly News