Imagine a device which could replicate any taste. Millions of dishes, drinks, desserts and snacks and your fingertips or, more accurately, at the tip of your tongue. Introducing the Norimaki Synthesizer, a device which, using electricity, electrolytes and 5 different gels, can produce flavours directly onto your tongue. So how does it all work?
During the summer holiday, as an Arkwright Engineering Scholarship opportunity I got to visit the Dyson factory in a small town called Malmesbury (near Bath/Bristol). Aside from a tour around the factory, I learnt about the Dyson Institute which I had previously never come across.
The Dyson Institute offers a four year degree-apprenticeship for students interested in studying engineering. Half the week is spent studying engineering from lectures from the University of Warwick and half the week in spent working at Dyson. In years 3 and 4 students can specialise in mechanical engineering, electronics, software, or electromechanical engineering, and at the end of the 4 years, students come out with a bachelors degree in engineering from the University of Warwick.
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