We are used in our day to day to send emails, messages ... using different platforms for this, both mail and instant messaging and even through social networks. What we did not know until now is that the next evolution of this type of platform involves not only allowing us to send images, videos or sound, but also we can also send flavors.
Apparently and as they have commented in a paper published in this regard, a group of researchers from the University of Singapore Led by Nimesha Ranasinghe, they have apparently already managed to devise the form and even presented a first prototype of their technology, where they have been able to send the flavor of the lemonade over the internet.
Researchers University of Singapore manages to develop a methodology to send flavors over the internet.
To achieve this they have been based on the idea that sensory stimuli, after all and ultimately, are nothing more than electrical impulses that reach certain neurons in our brain. This has finally led to translating, to call it somehow, certain flavors into bits of information that can be sent and transferred to electrical signals that can be understood by our brain.
Just below these lines I leave you a video where you can see various tests. In these basically what is done is asking several subjects to drink from one jug equipped with electrodes and LED lighting just full of water. Thanks to these electrodes, information can be sent via mobile through which it would be possible to reproduce the flavor and even the tonality of the lemonade. The result of this test is simply impressive as the testers commented that even though the actual lemonade tasted tart, they were literally drinking lemonade.