BrainPort allows people to "see" via their tongues
vision.wicab.com
vision.wicab.com
Anyway, really cool and useful gadget. I hope most or all people who need it get access to these devices in the future.
Gah, that's an atrocious website design. The shadows don't make any sense and the shadow on the lower right corner cuts off. There's some extra shadow to the right of the tab bar, the tabs have hard-to-read colors, and the rounded corners of the tabs are a different color than the space in between the tabs.
I really wish that places would either A) hire designers that can handle effects, B) get their effects from somewhere else and don't try to customize them too much, or C) have their lower-cost designers do a simpler site.
I wonder if eating something with a strong taste later on causes any "visual" effects.
It's faintly possible that some hypothetical future device could do something with flavor, but it is another scale of engineering difficulty since it would almost require that you are physically releasing molecules, as in, "fuel". It's at least conceivable, since it's a myth that certain flavors are isolated to certain parts of the tongue, but I'd expect that by the time we had the nanotechnology chops to pull that off, we'd have real artificial eyes, and quite possibly real artificial optic nerves, leaving the number of people who would want such a device quite low.