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.

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If made commercial, the TV would cost about N360,000.

“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.”

Nigerian boy invents manual ATM

Like a little boy from Imo state did, another young Nigerian boy has built a manually operated ATM.

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The boy's invention was spotted somewhere in Auchi, Edo state.

In a video shared by Instablog9ja on Instagram, the boy inserted a paper fashioned into a card into an opening in the local ATM. This was after he had pressed some command buttons on the machine.

He then makes a continuous, up and down movement at another opening in the middle of the ATM and new mints fall out. The boy then repeats the process.

Source: Legit.ng