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Now your nose can tell you when you are being talked about on social networks thanks to a net-connected robot.
Called Olly, the robot watches the millions of messages passing through social networks and spots when its owner is mentioned.
For every mention or referral Olly emits a waft of scent as a "reward" for the online interaction.
— Read more at Perfume-puffing robot sniffs out social media mentions at BBC News. Hat tip to Fragnut!
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THAT crisp apple colour and that crisp apple smell could one day come out of the same ink-jet printer, if an idea hatched in a Japanese lab takes off. Using technology from existing ink-jet printers, the idea is to generate evocative aromas to complement images on your computer or TV, from the scent of a mown lawn in a family photo to truffles in a cookery show.
— From With this printer, what you see is what you smell at NewScientist. Many thanks to JolieFleurs for the link!
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The researchers said it would release a candy floss smell when the image shows a fairground and can even emit the briny scent of the seaside when people look at their holiday photos.
— From 'Smell-O-Vision' TV developed by Japanese scientists at the Telegraph.
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The bottle, modelled on an engine piston, is terrific. Pity the scent is like something you’d get spritzed with in a Dubai casino toilet.
— Columnist Giles Hattersley on Cartier's new Roadster fragrance, from A Man of Style: What to wear to court, cope with the British weather in style.
If fancy graphics and scary sound effects aren’t enough for you, enhance your gaming experience by immersing yourself in smell-o-vision or com-pooh-ter games. Picture the scene: you’re engrossed in fighting German troops in Stalingrad when you gradually notice the unmistakable whiff of gunsmoke in the air.
— According to Smell effects: gaming that gets right up your nose, they're still working out all the bugs, but smell just might be part of your computer gaming experience soon.
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Two years ago, Trisenx introduced the ScentDome, now they're moving to the next level. Scenttv.tv will launch March 27:
Scenttv.tv, Inc. will launch its revolutionary Scented Web Broadcast Portal and from that day forward the global communications experience, as we have known it, will be forever changed. www.scenttv.tv delivers an enhanced “multi-sensory” digital experience by providing users the ability to smell content from the world-wide web. This historic event will introduce scent enabled content (SEC) and the ScentDomeTM…