Scent Message Sends Smell From Paris To New York
- 10 years ago
Researchers at Harvard University have invented a way to translate text messages and pictures into distinct smells using a device called an oPhone, developed by the company Vapor Communications based in Paris and Cambridge, Massachusetts. David Edwards from Harvard University has received the first scent message across the Atlantic Ocean from Paris to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Researchers at Harvard University have invented a way to translate text messages and pictures into distinct smells using a device called an oPhone, developed by the company Vapor Communications based in Paris and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
David Edwards from Harvard University has received the first scent message across the Atlantic Ocean from Paris to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
The message reportedly contained the smell of chocolate and champagne.
Each oPhone DUO device has two cylindrical parts that emit bursts of smells for ten seconds. These are controlled by 8 small cartridges called oChips, capable of producing 32 smells and blending them into over 300 thousand combinations.
Edwards designed the oChip so that it can be installed in future smartphone models.
He is quoted as saying: “Since your nose loses its sensitivity to scent after a relatively short period, it’s better for an aroma to be detected in the short term. Your nose is made for olefactory Tweets.”
Users can already take a picture of something like food or cedar wood, using the oSnap app, but then they have to go to one of the oPhone DUO locations in either Manhattan, Paris, or Cambridge to receive the scent message.
Researchers at Harvard University have invented a way to translate text messages and pictures into distinct smells using a device called an oPhone, developed by the company Vapor Communications based in Paris and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
David Edwards from Harvard University has received the first scent message across the Atlantic Ocean from Paris to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
The message reportedly contained the smell of chocolate and champagne.
Each oPhone DUO device has two cylindrical parts that emit bursts of smells for ten seconds. These are controlled by 8 small cartridges called oChips, capable of producing 32 smells and blending them into over 300 thousand combinations.
Edwards designed the oChip so that it can be installed in future smartphone models.
He is quoted as saying: “Since your nose loses its sensitivity to scent after a relatively short period, it’s better for an aroma to be detected in the short term. Your nose is made for olefactory Tweets.”
Users can already take a picture of something like food or cedar wood, using the oSnap app, but then they have to go to one of the oPhone DUO locations in either Manhattan, Paris, or Cambridge to receive the scent message.