On the videos that Homei Miyashita, a professor at Meiji University in Tokyo, posted, we see a costumed man, tie, a little disheveled, present his invention: the TTTV (Taste the TV – tastes the TV). It has come up with a lickable screen. He and his team had already created a flavor synthesizer and a fork that enriches the flavors of foods.
話題 の 逆 輸入 ｗ → 「日本 が 味 見 で き る テ レ ビ を 開 発 し た」 と 海外 で 話題 に – GIGAZINE https://t.co/jaYjK7utzX
– 宮 下 芳 明 Homei Miyashita (Professor, Meiji University) (@HomeiMiyashita) December 24, 2021
The principle of the lickable screen: ten cartridges vaporize artificial flavors on a plastic film which covers the TV screen to recreate the flavor of a food that can then be licked. The viewer therefore has the image, the sound and the taste of what is projected on the screen. In one video, Yuki, a student of the professor, is seen tasting chocolate while licking the spray mixture and approving: “It’s a bit like milk chocolate, soft and sweet.”
For Homei Miyashita, her find will help people “in the near future, to download and taste the flavors of a dish from their favorite restaurant, even halfway around the world, while staying at home.”
In a covid world, he imagines his TTTV as a connection, an interaction between the confined and the outside world (even if in a covid world, I would still avoid licking a screen on which one or another has salivated before me) . But the professor sees concrete applications for his invention, which could cost less than 10,000 euros. For example, as an application, distance learning for cooks and sommeliers or participation in tasting games, or quizzes. televised. Interesting, according to industrialists with whom the Japanese researcher is in talks.
For a movie like Thesilenceofthelambs, one would have on the tongue the taste of the liver of the census employee that the pyschopathic cannibal Hannibal Lecter tastes “with butter beans and an excellent chianti”. Or The Thomas Crown affair, the longest kiss in movie history, we would know what Faye Dunaway’s lipstick tastes like, which only Steve McQueen knew until then. Or OSS 117: we would finally know if the blanquette is really as good as Jean Dujardin claims!