Transmit Smells Over the Internet

Transmit Smells Over the Internet

Posted on Friday May 05, @10:35PM Pacific

Your computer could start smelling like a rose or a garbage dump, now that two Israeli scientists say they have figured out how to transmit scent through the Internet. The system will use a device that recreates scents from about 150 basic elements. On the sending end, an artificial nose would pick up the scent at the source and convert it to a computer file for transmission, or a scent could be bought on the Internet, say the scientists. Read more at CNN.com

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