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]