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It just won’t die. The idea of sending various scents and odors along with your mobile-message isn’t novel and it looks like it’s not going to go away any time soon. A group of German tech developers have announced that they’ve patented hardware that would allow mobile phone users to send scents along with SMS text messages or MMS multimedia messages.
The technology, which has been cooking for 8 years, has finally come to a head with the German group’s patent. By incorporating a chip stuffed with approximately 100 different scents into cellphones, the smelly technology allows users to send the smell of a flower along with a picture message of a bouquet of flowers. The chip could hit the commercial market as early as 2010.
Of course, we’ll have to wait for scent-compatible handsets equipped with this new chip to go public before smell-o-phone become a reality.
The good news? Scent-message recipients can opt to reject an incoming smelly-message.
[Via: EETimes]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
