Browsing takeaway pizza websites will never be the same again: you’ll soon be
able to download and print the pizza’s aroma and taste. A company called TriSenx
of Savannah, Georgia, will launch a device next month that looks like a desktop
printer but which can “print” smells and tastes. The $269 printer is
loaded with a cartridge containing more than 200 water-based flavours that are
deposited in varying combinations by a print head onto fibre-based cardboard to
make over a thousand different smells. The company is adapting the device to
print on an edible paper-like wafer, allowing it to print…
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