{"id":44992,"date":"2023-10-20T15:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/computer-generated-culinary-delights-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:40:15","slug":"computer-generated-culinary-delights-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/computer-generated-culinary-delights-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer-generated culinary delights &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/start-up-idea-cookie.jpg\" alt=\"Business idea for Computer-generated taste\" title=\"Business idea for Computer-generated taste\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16671\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/start-up-idea-cookie.jpg\" alt=\"Business idea for Computer-generated taste\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\">Do you remember that scene from <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/i> when Violet Beauregarde is treated to a type of gum that allows you to taste whatever it is you\u2019re craving?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-757\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It seems fantasy has become reality, with the unveiling of a flavour-changing cookie at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics and animation conference in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the past, there has been little research into how computers can successfully simulate taste. Part of the problem is that taste is generated by a combination of factors working together, including vision, smell and memories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Academics at The University of Tokyo decided to tackle this problem with a \u201cdisplay\u201d that exploits several senses, using a cookie as their subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The device is worn over the user\u2019s head and can transform the taste of a plain cookie to any of seven flavours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It combines augmented reality technology with smells released by a pump to trick the user\u2019s senses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a tech-savvy entrepreneur with a taste for bold ideas, this could be the start-up that takes the world by storm; computer-generated food experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember that scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when Violet Beauregarde is treated to a type of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}