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Guess what, Will?

What's that, Mango?

So I was watching this old BBC clip online of an

electronic lollipop. What is that? So it's not actually a candy. The lollipopop is still being

developed in labs, but it's this gentle clamp that slides metal plates over the top in bottom

your tongue. I don't think it helps to call this clamp gentle that still doesn't sound that

appealing to me.

Well, here's what's cool about it.

So it sends currents through your tongue and adjust the temperature on those plates,

and the electronic lollipop can actually trick your tongue into thinking it's tasting a wide variety of flavors.

Like a lemony sour taste is the easiest to pull off,

and scientists can do reasonable approximations of other flavors. But the application of all this is really cool. Like, imagine you're watching Iron Chef and Bobby Flay's on there, and he's just made the most amazing eggplant spaghetti taco in the world. And you can't figure out for the life of you what an eggplant plus spaghetti and a taco shell should taste like. And so you just take a lick of your lollipop and suddenly you get a sense of that flavor.

Wow. I mean, that's kind of weird, but it is pretty cool. It reminds me a little bit of smell of vision except for your taste bud.

Exactly. And you can see how this might be used in online grocery shopping in the future or checking out new recipes, it's totally fascinating.

But what I found most interesting in all of this are the limitations. Because these currents are only playing with your tongue, they can only create a set of basic flavors. But when the

scientists added technology that incorporates your nose, suddenly the range of flavors expanded

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