You've Got Smell: 1st 'Scent Message' Sent from NYC to Paris

livescience.com ^ | June 17, 2014 06:23pm ET | Bahar Gholipour, Staff Writer |

[BenLurkin]

The scent messages, called oNotes, are composed in an iPhone app called oSnap, which also launched today. Using oSnap, users can mix and match from 32 primitive aromas to produce more than 300,000 unique scents, Edwards said.

The 32 aromas are placed inside oPhone's eight "oChips," which could be thought of as a printer's ink cartridges. When the device receives an oNote, it releases the corresponding aroma based on the aromatic tags assigned to the image.

Each scent is designed to last roughly 10 seconds, about the same time that people take to sense an aroma, Edwards told reporters in a news briefing today at the American Museum of Natural History. If the photo is tagged with more than one scent, the smells will play one after the other.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

eFarts.

Great.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Astounding, breathtaking technology. The Founding Fathers could not possibly conceive of such an incredible thing. And what will we do with it?

Send each other fart smells. Thats what.

[CharlesOConnell]

Lady says to Dr. Johnson (Life of Boswell, compiler of the one of the first English dictionaries):

“Dr. Johnson, you smell!”

“No, Madam, you smell. I stink.”

[Stormdog]

O - sh*t!

[Redcitizen]

Now you can send Hoppes No. 9 Bore Cleaner scent to a gun hater.

[Redcitizen]

Pull my E-finger.

[SkyDancer]

Send a two second scent of Bayonne New Jersey.

[hoagy62]

Oh lovely...

Now, I like the idea that you could take a picture of lilacs and send an idea of their wonderful aroma.

However, I am also thinking about a text message from someone..”Wow! U shoulda smelled the nasty 1 Uncle Joe just let!”...and you can. 3000 miles away.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Smellophone.

[kevao]

“Mr. Watson—come here—I want to smell you.”

[Dr. Sivana]

The Founding Fathers could not possibly conceive of such an incredible thing.

Benjamin Franklin might have.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/heyho.wav

[Secret Agent Man]

not only can you send the kiss of death but the smell of death.

[Caipirabob]

So long as no smells from Paris make it across US borders.

[willyd]

iCutCheese.com

[LostInBayport]

eFarts.

Pity the folks who answer those calls in a public place! I hope they come with the appropriate sound effect.