Professor Yoshiaki Miyashita of the Department of Advanced Media Science, Faculty of Comprehensive Mathematics, Meiji University and Keiwatari Uji, a third-year student of the same department, have developed a glove-shaped device that "changes the taste of food" by giving an electric taste to the tongue.
When the glove-shaped device developed this time is worn, an electric taste is given to the tongue from the electrodes attached to the index finger through metal tableware such as spoons, forks, and cups.Electric taste is a change in taste quality such as metallic taste, sour taste, and salt taste that is felt when a taste device that senses taste such as the tongue receives an electrical stimulus.By using a glove-shaped device, it has become possible to give an electric taste to foods and drinks that are eaten by hand, such as fruits such as bananas, and it has become possible to easily give an electric taste to food and drink. ..
This research by Professor Miyashita et al. Was conducted at the 2019st Neurostimulation Interface Study Group of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan held at the University of Tokyo on June 6, 12. It was announced under the title of "Prototype".
