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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