Any child can tell you that cake mixture licked off of your fingers often tastes more delicious than the finished product. So design studio Michel/Fabian has created the Goûte spoon, which adapts the usual design of a spoon to replicate the sensation of licking your digits.

As anyone who's ever caught the faintest whiff of freshly baked bread can tell you, our sense of smell is inextricably linked to our memories of food. So the Virtual Human Interaction Lab is experimenting by adding smell and touch to potential VR experiences.

When it comes to food, it’s all about flavour – right? Canvas8 spoke to Charles Spence, the psychologist behind ‘gastrophysics’, to discover how all senses impact on how we taste and to find out how brands are using packaging, colour and sound to radically alter our flavour experiences.

From Bake Off’s beautiful buns to Instagram foodies posting pictures of their plates – digitally enhanced images of divine-looking dishes are everywhere. Professor Charles Spence, who studies visual hunger, explains to Canvas8 how these images affect our appetites.