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Meta Cookie | What's your flavour?
By Angela Jung
In the land of 2010, one plain cookie can transform itself into any flavour you desire -- if you wear a funky head machine that alters reality and fools your senses. Thanks to scientist Tajuki Narumi and a savvy team from the University of Tokyo, they created this innovative device called the "Meta Cookie."
I did not know this, but apparently your taste buds are influenced by what you perceive through your senses, particularly sight and smell.
So how does the meta cookie work? Once the subject chooses a cookie flavour, the meta cookie, which includes a camera and a head-mounted display, projects the image of the desired cookie onto the plain, tasteless cookie. Then a gust of air is pumped directly into the subject's nostrils. This convinces the brain that it really is about to eat the chosen cookie.
And ta-dah! The plain, tasteless cookie can be transformed and taste like chocolate chip, lemon, almond or cheese -- depending on the settings, of course.
Watch the video to see how the meta cookie works:
I wonder, does this mean I can select a triple chocolate cookie while consuming the calories of just a normal cookie? Now that would be sweet!
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