Improbable recently profiled the work of the Miyashita Laboratory at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, where research is underway into the possibilities offered by ‘electro-gustation’. The lab has not only invented the electric chopsticks but has also investigated a possible way of encouraging diners to use less salt on their potato chips – with the aid […]
Tag: electric shock
The taste of electric currents (part 1 of 2)
It was sometime around 1752 that Johann Georg Sulzer decided (for reasons best known to himself) to put the tip of his tongue between two plates of (different) metal whose edges were in contact. The results were, quite literally, shocking. He’d not only inadvertently stumbled across one of the world’s first electrolytic batteries, but it […]
Dr. Fish & Fish & Electro-shocking (& Mr. Fish)
A classic study by Dr. Ray Fish [pictured here] could be of use to biologists and anyone else who plan to take a special course in electroshocking fish. Dr. Fish’s report is: “Electric shock, part III: Deliberately applied electric shocks and the treatment of electric injuries,” Ray Fish, Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 11, Issue 5, […]