Saturday, July 01, 2006

Sound, Images, now a Smell recorder

Engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan (don't you just love em) are building an odour recorder capable of recording a smell and playing it back later. Simply point the gadget at a freshly brewed cup of coffee for example, and it will analyse its odour and reproduce it for you.

Game implentation..........endless, let the smell of burning rubber and high octane fuel waft across your nose as you rev at the start of Forza or Project Gotham, just what does an ogres smell like anyway, does Lara croft wear perfume?, ahhhhh! that locker room smell imported for your madden game, gagging on the smell of putrification entering a cave in Oblivion.....endless

Full story from New Scientist

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43 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really don't know if that's a good idea... I mean really! On the other hand, Larry's 'scratch and sniff' was nice; better, I am sure.

Besides there was an awfully (and literaly) stinking first similar approach quite some years ago. Can't remeber the bleeding device's name though.

Unknown said...

now that you mention it....(elderlys two brain cells rub toghether) your right!! ....can't bloody remember it....a fragrance emitter...died a death.

Properly implented though i'd buy it.....but it would want to have a pretty wide range of aromas and blends rather than a handful......

Anonymous said...

I don't know... I just dont like the sound (smell perhaps? -bad joke) of these devices... Why would I want to smell Mike Tyson?

Unknown said...

i remember attending a medieval exhibition (actors, reconstructed streets, muck, noise) i can remember was the smell, they had purposely set aside rotten veg and god knows what else to recreate an authentic smell.......and whereas you weren't inclined to hang around too long, it did bring home the squalor and create an athmosphere.

However i agree with you entirely when it comes to Mike tyson...... what if they only included "nice" smells like fresh cut grass or the smell of stale beer when you entered an inn.....

although the only place i've ever heard of a practical use for smell technology have been supermarkets, baking bread and fresh roast coffee etc.

Anonymous said...

I don't know... You do make it sound intriguing and even an important aspect of immersion... Then again, Max Payne featured Tube toilets...

Unknown said...

what about three levels of smell immersion, the roughest level would include tube toilet putrification, lesser levels would include the smell of toilet cleaner and fragrant flowers.......though its more likely, that by the time anyone gives this a serious outing, my smell receptors will have been knackered.

Anonymous said...

Only a true man would be able to make it. Yes, that would be the test to elevate games to adulthood ceremonies... Wise and imaginative as always mr. Elderly.

Unknown said...

your are most kind mr.gnome...though as you've pointed out, i would not be too enchanted with risking the rougher levels, and indeed my neighbours would be onto the health inspectors the next day.

"hello, theres a smell of burning flesh coming from next door"

Anonymous said...

And -trust me on this one- trying to explain anything, no matter how simple, to a cop is just an excercise in futility...

Unknown said...

you can sing it........

Anonymous said...

LA la LALA sol re la... cop's are braindead.. la lala

Unknown said...

gnome sings!!...is there no end to his talents.......... cops the remix ft. A.Gnome

Anonymous said...

You can't see it right now, but I can also tap-dance while singing.

Unknown said...

I had noticed some cracks appearing in the floor, but i thought it was merely subsidence.....an all singing all dancing gnome, in my sitting room.....honoured, if a tad worried about the building foundations.

Anonymous said...

Nothing to worry about... at least not till the acrobatics show, featuring ten gnomes and a zebra.

Unknown said...

female gnomes?

Anonymous said...

Lots of 'em...

Unknown said...

bring it on, i can always sleep in the tent........wow real female gnomes, doing acrobatics.......to a set mixed by bad boy gnome...

aint life great.......

Anonymous said...

Of course it is great. Unless of course you believe that beardy Nietsche guy...

Unknown said...

no im really here, (pinches himself, draws blood) see.....or was that sartre?


ouch!

Anonymous said...

It definitely wasn't Nietsche... As for Sartre I can't be really sure...

(wow. I'm here too!)

Unknown said...

(watches gnomes arm spurt blood)

I think you've got an artery there gnome!

NURSE!

Anonymous said...

quick

Unknown said...

!!!!!! (watches nurse apply tornique...nurse bends over to check gnomes vitals)

!!!!

Anonymous said...

:)

What a picture!

Unknown said...

(considers pinching his arm again) you will call a nurse won't you?

Anonymous said...

But of course


NURSE!!!

Unknown said...

(Rather obese wrinkled elderly Gnome nurse arrives wearing overalls)

Thanks gnome your a pal...........?

Anonymous said...

Of course I am ...


:)

Unknown said...

(fetid smell of stale perspiration emanates from Gnome nurse.)

Really Gnome you shouldn't have.......REALLY! you shouldn't have

(Gnome nurse belches!.......)

jeez............NO!

Anonymous said...

Ooops. Sorry. I'll get a you a new one. Younger. Human too.

Unknown said...

thank you mr. gnome......I'd be eternally grateful and more likely not to develop gangrene

Anonymous said...

Always looking out for friends...

Unknown said...

With your sensitivity, naive charm, and unique ganinja humour, i'm surprised no one's started a fansite yet......

Anonymous said...

I have quite a few, but they are all in the ultra secret NinjNet. It's all analog and meta-digital you know.

Unknown said...

I've heard rumours about the NinjiNet, but I never thought they were true....even existed.......wowze wow!

would it be like you know okay to, like, hang around with you, maybe pick up a few tips, you know sorta hang out doing, ya know ninja things.

(watches ganinja's laser eyes cut mantra shapes in the swirling cigarette smoke)

gee thats so freakin cool.....

Anonymous said...

Lol and rofl, to begin with...

Sure I'll pigeon you a passcode. Hold on... Bloody thing..

I'll send another pigeon.

Unknown said...

what just happened? the first pigeons dead isn't he? Ganinja your strength is too powerful for such little creatures.......we'll have to bury him now....or have you incinerated him.....

Anonymous said...

Don't worry she's off to the ninja-pet cemetary. No fear. She'll be back in no time...

Unknown said...

.....black candles? (elderly spots a feather protruding from Gnomes lip) Gnome.....am.....theres a feather.....
(elderly quickly puts the idea out of his head)
silly me.......

Anonymous said...

You must have been drinking heavily my friend... Feather? Pah

(coughs, to the general surpsise of everyone present...)

Unknown said...

lol

(elderly looks suitably surprised)

those cigarettes.......

Anonymous said...

quite

I'll smile tis one shut...

:)