Japanese scientists invent an electronic gum that never loses its flavor ... salty

Many were the shortcomings in our childhood. For starters, the Zumosol Cousin did not appear whenever we needed it and the Bollycao chocolate was not all well distributed by the crumb as it should. However, today we are in luck, some very nice scientists have invented, as we wish, the gum that never loses its flavor .

Maybe, when you see the gadget you feel like a piece of rigid plastic, nothing fun, and with which it will be impossible to make giant and elastic bubbles, but in reality it is an advanced gadget that releases a sensitive electric current towards the tongue and that It meets one of our greatest demands of childhood: that the taste of chewing gum never runs out.

The group of researchers who have achieved this wonder comes from Japan , from Meiji University . Such a feat has been led by the scientist Naoshi Ooba and presented during the last ACM Symposium on Software and User Interface Technology in the German capital.

During the presentation of the product we were warned that, for now, this "chewing gum" is only capable of sending us flavors such as salty and bitter . So nothing to recover the taste of the Boomer Maxi-Roll or the bubbling explosion of the Bubaloo , or the exotic mix, sugar free mango with pineapple and Coca-Cola brands aimed at adults.

Even so, our inventors are working hard to offer, as soon as possible, tastes as basic as sweet , sour and umami , a word that comes from the inventors' language and means "pleasant, tasty flavor." Maybe they should have started with this one or the sweet one rather than the savory one. So, as a complex marketing strategy, I say.

Infinite chewing gum could be achieved from the piezoelectric effect . Effect by which the device produces certain discharges obtained from the energy achieved by chewing.

In case you are thinking about it: no, it is not about electrocuting your tongue to bite. Rather than scam your taste buds to experience different flavors from the proper functioning of a piezoelectric sensor and electrodes coated by a thin layer of plastic. You just have to chew, enjoy and not try to paste it then under the table.

From here we want to thank these scientists for helping us with this childhood dream, that "Gum of inexhaustible flavor", and ask them, please, to invent something, sooner rather than later, to solve other shortcomings that we suffered during our first years:

• A boomerang and a yo-yo that return to the hand always, as they promised us in the announcements.
• Marbles and tazos that do not get lost, and that if you exchange them and then you regret they return to your pocket rolling and to the soft sound of your whistle.
• A match in which you choose the first and everyone passes it. No outgoing goalkeeper.
• Kinders Sopresa that carry real gifts inside. Like the PlayStation we go for or a weekend in Punta Cana with a butler monkey.
• A perennial grandmother who tells us how handsome we always are. Never run out of batteries.

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