SCOTTISH SCIENTISTS CREATE AUTOMATED TASTE TESTER, WHICH COULD IDENTIFY COUNTERFEIT SCOTCH
August 1st, 2019
Researchers have developed an artificial ‘tongue’ capable of tasting differences between whisky brands, which they hope will help tackle the market for counterfeit alcohol. Engineers and chemists from the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde in Scotland created a set of optical ‘tastebuds’ using sub-microscopic slices of gold and aluminium, arranged in a checkerboard pattern.
When various whiskies were poured over the artificial tongue, the researchers observed subtle differences in how the metals absorbed light, which indicated taste differences ...
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