Discontinued Ideas: Taste Manipulator

Although the Taste Manipulator was one of our stronger concepts from the ideas stage there are several problems which have come to our attention which have led us to conclude it's development.

Primarily the device would probably be too intrusive to be practical. Any device which clips to the nose or is inserted into the mouth would inevitably irritate the user which may lead to the device not being used. Secondly hygiene; any device worn inside the nose or mouth would have to be very well cleaned and this may be difficult with a precision device such as this.



In addition to this it is possible that a device such as this sends the wrong message to parents and children. A far better solution to the problem of children only liking the taste of food which is bad for them is to cook healthy food which also tastes good. A device such as this would discourage traditional cooking which can function as important 'one-to-one' time between parent and child. If this education is lost then future generation may stop appreciating the art of cooking.