Digital Trends article mentions Ranasinghe’s inventions
Digital Trends mentioned inventions made by Nimesha Ranasinghe, an assistant professor of computing and information science and director of the Multisensory Interactive Media Lab at the University of Maine, in the article, “Japanese scientists are chewing over an ‘electric gum’ that never loses flavor.” The article focused on an “unlimited electric gum,” created by researchers at Meiji University in Japan, that uses electric shocks to simulate flavor. The article also mentioned Ranasinghe’s virtual cocktail glass and electric chopsticks, which use similar technology to simulate flavors in the food they touch.