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posted by janrinok on Monday July 13 2015, @05:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-idea-stinks dept.

This fall, the start-up Vapor Communications, for example, will introduce several devices to include subtle scents with books, movies and clothing. And the company will start mass production of its oPhone Duo, a tabletop device that can emit scents based on how an iPhone photo is labeled.

Another company, Scentee, already has a scent product on the market. The product, also called Scentee, is a cartridge that plugs into a smartphone's headphone jack. It can be set up with an app to emit a puff of fragrance when a text message or email arrives.
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All of the products depend on a small pellet called an oChip — the "o" in the product names is for olfactory. In the oPhone, each chip contains from one to four aromas. The chips are sold in packets of eight, grouped into "families" of similar smells, called Coffee, Foodie and Memory. A person who wants to describe the smell of a pasta sauce, for example, could choose notes of tomato, rosemary and parsley, which would then command the player to position those chips so the air would flow over them, combining the scents.

Adding smell to entertainment would make it immersive, but do you really want to experience the odors when our heroes get trapped in the trash compactor on the Death Star?


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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday July 14 2015, @12:53PM

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @12:53PM (#208861) Journal

    I can't speak to the general case, but in this at least, you are not stupid :-)

    I find that many of the scents that are composed do not smell at all like what they are supposed to. Unfortunately, too many of them smell of the cesspool to me. Imagine riding in a train and 5 or 6 of the other passengers splashed their faces with water from the cesspool that morning! Talk about toilet water!

    It really is just a matter of how they compose the scents. Actual flowers and essential oils from flowers smell good to me, but fake flower scent is hit and miss.

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