This document discusses a potential new smartphone app called "Scents and Flavors" that would allow users to experience virtual tastes and smells through their phone. The app would stimulate the tongue with electrical currents and temperatures to produce sensations like salty, sweet, sour or bitter, replicating different flavors. This technology could move communication beyond just audio and visual to include other senses like taste, allowing people to experience food online or share new flavors virtually. The document is written by Cassidy Lang for an assignment on researching and describing a future product or service.

1. Scents and Flavors via Smartphone ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !Cassidy Lang!
FA102a, Research and Brand Development

2. Scents Flavor Taster and Flavors App ! via ! Smartphone ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !Cassidy Lang!
Assignment One, Research
“Are you ready for a virtual taste?”
http://news.nus.edu.sg/highlights/7198-simulator-recreates-virtual-taste-online

3. Scents and Flavors via Smartphone ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !Cassidy Lang!
Assignment One, Research
-Electrical and thermal stimulation of the tip of
the tongue create virtual taste.
http://news.nus.edu.sg/highlights/7198-simulator-recreates-virtual-taste-online

4. Scents and Flavors via Smartphone ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !Cassidy Lang!
Assignment One, Research
-Different combinations of electrical currents
and temperatures can produce salty, sweet,
sour and bitter sensations.
http://news.nus.edu.sg/highlights/7198-simulator-recreates-virtual-taste-online

5. Scents and Flavors via Smartphone ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !Cassidy Lang!
Assignment One, Research
-This technology is a step away from the age of
information, where we are now, to the age of
experience.
http://innovation.uk.msn.com/personal/the-incredible-new-way-to-taste-your-food-online

6. Flavor Scents Saver and Flavors App ! via ! Smartphone ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !Cassidy Lang!
Assignment One, Research
-Humans are limited if we remain
communicating with solely audio and vision.
http://innovation.uk.msn.com/personal/the-incredible-new-way-to-taste-your-food-online

7. Flavor Scents Saver and Flavors App ! via ! Smartphone ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !Cassidy Lang!
Assignment One, Description of Future Product or Service
‘Scents and Flavors’ via Smartphone Extension