Unusual but true: World's first virtual cocktail hijacks your senses

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-01-05 10:12
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The Vocktail is accompanied with an app that allows you to customize the drink by choosing the color and virtual flavors by altering each of the stimuli via Bluetooth. [Photo/IC]

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A device called the Vocktail is shaking up the traditional cocktail by mixing in a dash of electronics designed to fool your senses.

Made by Nimesha Ranasinghe and his team at the National University of Singapore, the Vocktail – short for virtual cocktail – is a glass that can be made to alter and augment flavors via a phone app.

Once a liquid is poured into the glass, a drinker can change the sight, smell and taste affecting its taste. The interactive drink consists of a cocktail glass that fits nicely into a 3D-printed structure which contains all the electronics for multisensory stimulation.

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