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You've Got Smell: 1st 'Scent Message' Sent from NYC to Paris
livescience.com ^
| June 17, 2014 06:23pm ET
| Bahar Gholipour, Staff Writer |
Posted on 06/18/2014 5:51:49 PM PDT by 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.
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posted on
06/18/2014 5:51:49 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
06/18/2014 5:55:34 PM PDT
by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
To: BenLurkin
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.”
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/18/2014 6:00:13 PM PDT
by
Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: BenLurkin
Now you can send Hoppes No. 9 Bore Cleaner scent to a gun hater.
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posted on
06/18/2014 6:07:57 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
(Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
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posted on
06/18/2014 6:08:45 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
(Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.)
To: BenLurkin
Send a two second scent of Bayonne New Jersey.
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posted on
06/18/2014 6:16:20 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
06/18/2014 6:17:56 PM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/18/2014 6:26:19 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: BenLurkin
“Mr. Watson—come here—I want to smell you.”
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posted on
06/18/2014 6:32:26 PM PDT
by
kevao
(Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
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posted on
06/18/2014 6:39:45 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If youÂ’re litigating against nuns, youÂ’ve probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: kevao
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posted on
06/18/2014 6:41:26 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
not only can you send the kiss of death but the smell of death.
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posted on
06/18/2014 7:19:05 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: BenLurkin
So long as no smells from Paris make it across US borders.
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posted on
06/18/2014 7:22:33 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
06/18/2014 7:33:06 PM PDT
by
willyd
(I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
eFarts.
Pity the folks who answer those calls in a public place! I hope they come with the appropriate sound effect.
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posted on
06/18/2014 7:39:54 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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