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Virtual cocktails hijack your senses to turn water into wine
Using a combination of LEDs, electrodes and smelly gas, the Vocktail can simulate a variety of flavours to create digital drinks
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Oysters can 鈥榟ear鈥� the ocean even though they don鈥檛 have ears
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Blind people repurpose the brain’s visual areas for language
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This is how some blind people are able to echolocate like bats
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Blind children should be allowed to learn to echolocate like me
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Fish can’t recognise faces if they鈥檙e upside down 鈥� just like us
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Augmented reality glasses seek to keep speech in sight
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Fetuses turn to follow face-like shapes while in the womb
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Causing a stink: The truth about fragrances and your health
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Our brains prefer invented visual information to the real thing
When making sense of a visual blind spot, our brains fill in the gaps. We鈥檙e more likely to believe its version of what鈥檚 in front of us than a real image
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Fighting for our forgotten sense
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How to daydream your way to better learning and concentration
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Technology
Virtual lemonade sends colour and taste to a glass of water
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Special glasses give people superhuman colour vision
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