A multisensory viewing experience of food thru lickable TV screen now developed in Japan

Taste the TV (TTTV) is a device developed by a Japanese professor that captures actual food flavors and can be tasted by licking the television screen. The taste of food can be imitated through the use of the flavor canisters in the device. It has 10 flavors which will then be sprayed and adjusted in the hygienic film to be rolled on the TV screen depending on the taste of the particular food assigned to the device. As per the Meiji University professor, Homei Miyashita, this kind of technology is indeed helpful mostly in the time of the COVID 19 pandemic. It helps to improve and maintain the safe interaction and connection between people and the world. “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 said. Together with Miyashita are 30 students on the development of similar flavor-related devices. After creating the TTTV prototype by himself, the commercial version now costs 100,000 yen ($875) to make.