Artefact 2 Research: Taste: Electronic Tongue

For years scientists have been developing a way to enhance user interaction by creating a multisensory experience.

The electronic tongue is one development that could have the potential to change the world in which we live in now. The tongue is being tested to have the ability to taste and analyse:

- liquid food
- beverages
- brews, analysis of homogenates (flesh food, fruits, vegetables)
- analysis of vegetable and olive oils.
- Raw materials, intermediates, final products, taste substances, food additives.



The tongue is also being tested to have basic human perception of taste such as salty, sweet, bitter, sour and umani, and even mimic the movements of the mouth.

With this new chemical technology...what is next, tasting the menu before you order via your mobile phone?

I aim to test in my artefact whether this is something which people could actually get used to doing this? Is there a need to taste before you buy? Is taste really that important of a sense to use during interaction? and finally how could taste be crossed between cultures, is there a cultural divide between tastes and how would this adapt in technology?