Artificial throat drinks drinks so you don't have to

NIZO Food Research, along with Quest International (a flavoring company) have developed an artificial throat the mimics the real thing, taste-testing fizzy drinks so humans don't have to.  As absurd as it sounds, the truth is that the drink industry uses tons of taste-testers, and an artificial device like this could spell big efficiency gains for them (and a lot of out of work taste-testers—it was fun while it lasted!). The end result for us? More fizzy drinks, of course. The device uses two glass tubes that operate like a mouth and esophagus, and an air just pumps the "breath" back up after a "swallow" for sampling. As for what the average consumer could do with such a device, we'll just leave that one alone.