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Digital Taste Interface
Tutter writes with news that Smellovision is being joined in reality by Tasteovision. "Possible applications in healthcare and gaming — it works by using electrodes on your tongue to stimulate salty, sweet, bitter and sour. It can produce the taste of virtual foods or drinks, allowing you to enjoy the taste without the calories (or chewing...). They are also good reasons to do this, for example, a diabetic can now taste sweets without actually affecting their blood sugar levels. Quote: 'The team is also working on a spin-off called a digital lollipop that will give the effect of a continuous sugar hit – but without sugar. For taste messaging they have developed TOIP — Taste Over Internet Protocol. This is a data format that makes it easy to transmit information on how to recreate the different tastes via the electrode. ... It is early days. The four major taste components, plus the fifth, the savoury 'umami' tang, are only a part of what we call flavor. Smell and texture are important, too — and the team now wants to work on adding those effects.' A video on youtube shows what it can do."
a diabetic can now taste sweets without actually affecting their blood sugar levels
Who says the taste of sweets won't affect your blood sugar levels?
This video has a very high claim/evidence ratio. All I can see is a man with two electrodes in his mouth. Nothing about how it works. I'm going to file this in "speculative fiction"
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
The whole "zones of taste on the tongue" is a myth, just like the "five senses" (there are at least 6, just the sense of balance alone proves this).
And what about smell? Those volatile molecules are most of what is perceived as a flavor. The only way this submission could be more hypey and bullshitty is if they used 3D printing somehow.
Well, since porn has usually been a driver for technology... It goes without saying... being able to taste the sex will be one use this technology will soon be put to. And if they can perfect the taste of flavored latex... the sky is the limit. -_- I know you think I'm joking, but I'm not -- VHS versus Betamax. VHS won because Betamax wouldn't license to porn producers. Technology is replete with examples of our insatiable hedonistic appetites driving it to profit and success over its competitors, who tried to maintain "the high ground".
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Why simulate sugar tasting on an ongoing basis? Might there be a feedback effect, psychosomatic diabetes, muscle change, etc. I'd rather have beer taste simulated than candy.
I can't wait to hear about the first users getting hacked. I wonder what flavours will be used for the hacks, apart from the obvious ones. I'll let your dirty minds fill in the blanks.
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I do not welcome the new overlords of bad taste.
They are also good reasons to do this, for example, a diabetic can now taste sweets without actually affecting their blood sugar levels.
No, actually they cannot. Stimulation of sweet taste receptors triggers insulin release, which in turn does, you know, affect blood sugar levels somewhat ;-)
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started it's bound to be a sight to see'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F2zl4LqSlg
we need to cache as many apples as possible?
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Somebody with learning difficulties?
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the mouth is commonly used in sex acts ...
which would involve taste
both you and GP seem foreign to this whole enterprise...mouths are integral for sex...but taste is...a parenthetical sensation at best...one enjoyed b/c of the source it...came from...not because of any inherent characteristic
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The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!
...as it will almost certainly invariably produce a taste that is almost, but not quite, utterly unlike tea.
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...that can produce the taste of salty, sweet, bitter and sour food"
Can it do 9V battery flavor, too?
If this was real, I can see trolling entering a whole new dimension. Here - taste this....
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On a more serious note, couldn't emulating the taste of sugar also cause health issues by tricking the brain into expecting sugar?
http://www.npr.org/2013/07/12/201461166/not-so-sweet-side-effects-of-artificial-sweeteners
"So if you think about a world where there are no artificial sweeteners, when we taste something sweet, it's often a sugar. And that means when the sweet taste hits our mouth, our bodies, our brains, based on this experience can learn to anticipate that calories and sugar are going to show up. And as a result, we'll start to produce changes, physiological changes; like the release of hormones, and the activation of our metabolism so that we can deal with the arrival of those calories in that sugar. And we think that's kind of a learning process; and that helps us not only regulate how much we eat but also to keep our blood sugar in a more healthy range. And now if you introduce an artificial sweetener, what you do is you get this very strong sweet taste in your mouth, but you don't get the consequences that normally ought to show up. No calories show up. No sugar shows up. And so your body will then adjust to that new reality by saying, wait a minute; I've tasted something sweet. I have no idea what's going to happen. I'm not going to release those hormones, or I'm not going to release as many of those hormones. And that's what we really think the confusion comes from."
Don't reach for the 24 hour virtual lollipop just yet.
I already know that candy and other stuff has about a bazillion calories in it, and I like to stay svelte and in shape, so I just chew the candy to get the taste and texture (texture is key, which is clearly a problem with this technology) then spit it out.
I eat fairly healthy otherwise, but I'm posting as anon because I suspect there are those out there who would look down on my practice of not swallowing.
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