My daughter has recently started to sniff things.
Like, actually, <sniff><sniff>.
She thinks she's quite something because she can make the <sniff><sniff> sound with her nose now.
And as I was making a call yesterday, I wondered- what ever happened to smell-o-phones? You know, the idea that technology would be able to somehow produce a smell from across the phone (or internet).
I was thinking- it can't be that hard, can it?
You'd just need to have a "palate" of smells that you can produce at the receiving end and some sort of chemical/molecule assayer at the sending end....then it's just a matter of "produce this many molecules of smell A, this many of B"... like a little smell recipe.
Now, I know that companies already make these air testers to measure particulates in the air. I wonder why no one is putting these two together? You'd make a fortune!
But, one request from my end- please provide an "off" feature...because I don't want to smell everyone that is talking to me over the phone.
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