{"id":80898,"date":"2022-01-05T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=80898"},"modified":"2022-01-05T09:21:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:21:38","slug":"japanese-professor-creates-tasty-lickable-tv-screen-that-you-can-actually-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/japanese-professor-creates-tasty-lickable-tv-screen-that-you-can-actually-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Professor Creates Tasty &#8216;Lickable&#8217; TV Screen That You Can Actually Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_80899\" style=\"width: 2010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80899\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-80899 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-377.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-377.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-377-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-377-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-377-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-377-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-80899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Meiji University professor, Homei Miyashita<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Have you ever been scrolling through social media on your phone, tablet or TV and come across a picture of food &#8211; and thought to yourself &#8211; &#8216;I bet that tastes amazing!&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>If so, than you soon may be able to taste that picture! Sounds odd right? Well, it is, but it is also quite fascinating!<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese professor has created a prototype for a lickable LCD screen that will allow you to taste different flavors!<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/lick-it-up-japan-professor-creates-tele-taste-tv-screen-2021-12-23\/\">Reuters<\/a>, the screen works by employing a \u201ccarousel of 10 flavor canisters that spray in combination\u201d in order to mimic the taste of real food, as explained by Reuters. The spray sample is then placed onto a \u201chygienic film\u201d which is on a flat TV screen so that the viewer can taste it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80900\" style=\"width: 2010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80900\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-80900 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-374.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-374-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-374-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-374-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TV-lickable-screen-374-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-80900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Meiji University professor, Homei Miyashita<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udcfa \u2018Taste the TV\u2019: A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavors <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JWVhiU94z1\">https:\/\/t.co\/JWVhiU94z1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZgxmfTf1Xn\">pic.twitter.com\/ZgxmfTf1Xn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1473966613221163008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meiji University professor, Homei Miyashita, was inspired to create something during the pandemic, that would allow people to connect in a different way via new technology.<\/p>\n<p>As he explained to Reuters, \u201c<em>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.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-skm-boomerang-el-0=\"processed\">Miyashita explained to the news outlet that if this idea were to go into production, it would cost roughly \u00a5100,000 JPY, or $875 USD, to create.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80901\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80901\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-80901 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lick.jpg 670w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lick-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lick-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-80901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Meiji University professor, Homei Miyashita<\/p><\/div>\n<p data-skm-boomerang-el-0=\"processed\">This isn&#8217;t the first cool invention that the professor has created. He is well known for creating a fork that makes food taste richer and more flavorful.<\/p>\n<p data-skm-boomerang-el-0=\"processed\">The ultimate goal for the &#8216;Taste TV&#8217; is a downloadable application that features flavor from around the world &#8211; that everyone can download and experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been scrolling through social media on your phone, tablet or TV and come across a picture of food &#8211; and thought to yourself &#8211; &#8216;I bet that tastes amazing!&#8217;. If so, than you soon may be able to taste that picture! Sounds odd right? Well, it is, but it is also quite fascinating! A Japanese professor has created a prototype for a lickable LCD screen that will allow you to taste different flavors! According to Reuters, the screen works by employing a \u201ccarousel of 10 flavor canisters that spray in combination\u201d in order to mimic the taste <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":80899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[18876],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80898"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=80898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}