Techno Babble

Demonstrated at the recent Siggraph 2010 Conference and Exhibition, Meta Cookie combines augmented reality technology with olfactory display technology to create an interactive gustatory display.

Eh ?

Meta Cookie is the world’s first pseudo-gustation system which induces cross-modal effect to let humans perceive various tastes without changing chemical substances by changing only visual and olfactory information. The system evokes cross-modal effect among vision, olfaction and gustation.

What ?

The system allows users to feel that they are eating a flavored cookie even though they are eating a plain cookie with an AR marker.

Ah, I see (I think).