Science News speaks with Ranasinghe virtual taste
Nimesha Ranasinghe, an assistant professor of spatial informatics at the University of Maine, spoke with Science News for a story about “e-Taste,” a new device that delivers virtual tastes by squirting chemicals onto the tongue. Previous efforts have attempted to simulate taste through electrical stimulation of the tongue, but this method remains poorly understood. “We don’t have a hundred percent understanding of how the tongue and taste perception works,” said Ranasinghe, a computer scientist who was not involved in the “e-Taste” project.