Re: transmitting taste over the Internet

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: transmitting taste over the Internet
Message-Id	<20170402030242.1e1e4b1a.rsw@therandymon.com>
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Date	2017-04-02 03:02 -0400

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On Sat, 01 Apr 2017 13:31:53 +0100
"Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:29:41 +0100, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> 
> > From the «hard to swallow with a tongue full of electrodes» department:
> > Title: Scientists Discover Way To Transmit Taste of Lemonade Over  
> > Internet
> > Author: help@slashdot.org
> > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 06:30:00 +0300
> > Link:  
> > http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ehES90ZAJCE/scientists-discover-way-to-transmit-taste-of-lemonade-over-internet
> >
> 
> The date is wrong. Today is/was April Fool's Day.

As taste is generally electric impulses from sensors on the tongue, I
think it's legit.  They just have to stimulate the right parts of your
tongue to make it work.  Better than smell-o-vision, anyway.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision

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transmitting taste over the Internet RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-30 09:29 +0000
  Re: transmitting taste over the Internet "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-01 13:31 +0100
    Re: transmitting taste over the Internet RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-04-02 03:02 -0400

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