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Touch, smell and taste your contacts?
We have web cams, monitors, speakers and microphones, so we're able to see and hear our contacts. But has anything been invented so we can touch, smell and taste them? Or maybe something that kinda simulates the feel, smell and taste of them? I know it wouldn't be very useful, but it would still be interesting.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yes.
Touch: the computerized machinery used to support remote tele-surgery can be used to touch things. Pressure sensors in the remote hands/appendages send touch pressure information back to the computers controlling the biofeedback being played to the operator.
Smell: not really, but there is work on being able to produce "smell-o-vision" by using new "lab on a chip" technologies to perform the mass spectrometer functions for identifying the chemicals in a particular air sample, then using that data to select a variety of archived oils and other scents to reproduce that smell artificially. It's a small leap to separate the sensor and playback, to have the mass spectrometer data transmitted back to a remote computer that selects from the baseline odors in its chemical database to reproduce the smells to a remote operator.
Taste: no way. That's actually pretty gross.