Scent Online: Captured, Digitized, and Recreated Smells over the Internet

Artificial nose technology is fast approaching high fidelity digitization of smell, (dabbed ‘camera aroma’), and smell recreation devices (dabbed ‘aroma screens’) are being funded for aggressive development, announced yesterday by D&G Sciences — Innovation Productivity Corporation. Soon enough you will not only see and hear your far away family and friends — you will smell them (if they let you…). A great dating device too. Albeit, the technology will become a new and powerful remote medical diagnosis tool, and a powerful weapon against identity theft. Cost and schedule figures were not disclosed. It’s known that the ‘camera aroma’ is much further developed than the recreative end. Preliminary thoughts are devoted to applying the emerging technology to movies and television. What is totally unknown, is the prospective impact on the swelling migration from old fashioned reality to cyberspace.