Gallery: A Science-Inspired Restaurant Where You Inhale Your Dessert Mints

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    Cafe ArtScience is a newly opened restaurant in Cambridge's Kendall Square East neighborhood.
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    It's opening in conjunction with Le Laboratoire, a gallery space run by professor and inventor David Edwards. The Laboratoire will hold exhibitions that straddle the line between scientific experiment and art show.
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    Mathieu Lehanneur designed the restaurant's interior. In the entryway you'll see a shelf of inventions that Edwards and his collaborators have worked on throughout the years.
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    For example, Le Whaf, which creates flavored clouds that you can consume.
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    The bar and restaurant will serve various kinds of Wiki foods, which come with an edible skin. Edwards plans to introduce a fois gras variety soon.
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    Customers can smell their coffee and food through the oPhone, which delivers olfactory messages.
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    On their way out, diners can try a breathable dinner mint. This one is chocolate.
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