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Smell Camera Snapshots Scents For the Future
An anonymous reader writes "Designer Amy Radcliffe has created an 'analog odor camera' that can be used to recreate a smell. From the article: 'When a smell source is placed under the device's glass cone, a pump extracts the smell via a plastic tube. After being drawn to Madeleine's main unit, the smell goes through a resin trap which absorbs the particles so molecular information can be recorded. That data is expressed in a graph-like formula, which essentially contains a fingerprint of the smell. In a special lab, that formula can then be inscribed on a bronze disk to artificially reproduce the smell. The smell can also be recreated in small vials.'"
I cannot see the big scent manufacturers liking this one. .
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"In a special lab, that formula can then be inscribed on a bronze disk to artificially reproduce the smell." What, is this from the Church of Mormon?
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.
they fart'd on the cam then it smell's like fart's on the photo's lol datd be funney
Chanel No. 0x05
Have gnu, will travel.
Is there some cancer curing smell that won't be available in the future, when molecular synthesis is a possibility instead of laboratory "recreation"?
This is vapourware. Perhaps pun intended. Imaginative, kind of, but such devices have been predicted since the early 1900s. Never comes to market. Why? Headspace analysis is super expensive. Even the right library of molecular signatures, which would be needed to interpret the output of the GC/Mass Spec is in the neighbourhood of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then you need a really good GC/Mass Spectrometer machine. Or at least a really good Gas Chromatograph. All this is very expensive, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars neighbourhood. And that's JUST TO FIND OUT WHAT MAY BE IN THE SMELL. Then you need a professional perfumer and a perfume house with thousands of fresh organic compounds available to reblend the smell. This is a million dollar project, or at the very least tens of thousands for each "photograph". Prohibitively expensive. I cannot believe a moderator let this one through at slashdot. Oh well.
Watch an ecosystem pop up similar to Instagram and computers having Smell-o-Vision like readers for the copper disks. Web ads start hurling smells at you, before and after using perfumes, friends on Facebook send smells after they "accomplish" something on the toilet, ask if there is anything wrong about their poop being more stinky than usual.
Visual stuff is more than enough... Last thing we need is another sense attacked 24/7 by the same MBAs that gave us the "next quarter over anything" else thinking.
I said make a DART gun... not a far... oh never mind...
Just as white noise will mask sounds, there's an equivalent olfactory white.
And you thought autoplay ads with sound were bad, just wait, autoplay ads with smells are coming. And then will come the trolling....
He said, "I can smell your cunt."
Mildly amusing, no practical purpous.
However, I so want to go to H.R. and have evidence that that that huge thing that got off the elevator 50 feet from me is NOT complying with company policy about wearing strong perfumes.
Next up, heavy smoker after every break and the dude that doesn't have to shower because his sweat doesn't smell, just ask him.
No brain, no pain.
There goes all my pr0n.
Smellevision replaced television back in 2000. This is old news.
this is going to be real expensive at first, probably won't be readily available for 30 yrs to the common folks, but, on the other hand, this can lead to very interesting projects, from new forms of entertainment vehicle to new forms of crime scene investigation tools and perhaps even for memory therapy and other uses which I can't think of at the moment.
IIRC, this is the third sensation that makes the tri of the tricorder.
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Erhmm.. suddenly makes sence
nothing like gettin that ripe smell of her dinner as you enjoy the show
There is much known about the connection between smell and other aspects of the human experience. Photographs are more objective. Scents are more subjective. And a scent might remind someone of a personal experience that is important to them, but an objective 'viewer' would not experience the same when presented with even a 100% rendering of a scent.
And even for the original scentographer, the smell revisited may some across very differently that the one remembered as ambient smells are filtered out. You know, how people often cannot smell themselves? Imagine a guy with bad body odor taking scentographs and experiencing them even a few days later only to realize he had no idea how badly he smelled. (He was, after all, closest to the camera when the scentograph was taken.)
Over-all, this is something of a novelty like 3D movies.
Google Nose is real?
Time to buy stock in John Waters' production company!
#DeleteChrome
So in just a few years we might have a way to remember dining at that fabulous Mexican restaurant literally forever.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Just as long as you don't take it to space and make me smell Uranus.
The Internet King? I wonder if he could provide faster nudity.
You know it will be the first application. Either that or porn.
Needless to say, the actual article left me disappointed.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
...as "Odorifics". She had some kind of pump and cartridges that pumped out the smells.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Inscribed on a bronze disk? Is this a research project or an art installation?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
The summary mentions a *designer*. Do we have a working prototype (cause that would be a sensation right away) or just a design mock-up? "Here is what a smell camera could look like. We'll build one as soon as someone discovers how our mysterious "main unit" could work"
bickerdyke
Interesting article—makes me think of four things:
1) The Harold and Maude movie: she invented a method of smell playback.
2) Scratch and Sniff technology (microencapsulation) may reach a whole new level.
3) Are there "primary smells" like primary colors? If so, imagine people creating new smells and posting the formulas online. I imagine engineered tastes would be possible too, as it's a closely related sense.
4) Imagine if High Times starts using that technology...
"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games." - Eugene Jarvis
I've been doing this for decades. Coincidentally, everything I cherish smells like polyethylene.
Ready? I'm gonna capture this on Smell-O-Vision, so hold yer farts!
"In a special lab, that formula can then be inscribed on a bronze disk to artificially reproduce the smell." What, is this from the Church of Mormon?
First error: there is no "Church of Mormon". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is often referred to as "Mormon" because it accepts the Book of Mormon as Scripture (along with the Bible).
Second error: Joseph Smith said he translated the Book of Mormon from golden plates, not bronze disks. To be fair, the first people mentioned in the Book of Mormon did obtain a copy of the Old Testament engraved on brass plates.
Just saw Despicable Me 2. I thought the Fart Gun was far fetched. Guess not.
I think "creates" doesn't mean what you think it means.
She 'created' this "scent camera" the way I just "had sex with" Nicole Kidman.
This "story" links to an aggregator, that links to a blog where she talks about "wouldn't this be cool?"
She built a model of one with some tubes, a glass bell jar, and a ceramic pot, and then took a picture of it. Either the /. editors are colossally lazy or stupid that this even got posted.
-Styopa
If we're building stuff from local stores of ((grey goo)), why not just D/L plans for LSD ?
and yes I'm joking about the feasibility
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Looney Tunes predicted this years ago only it is 13 years late. "Smell-O-Vision Replaces Television: Carl Stalling Sez It Will Never Work!" (The Old Grey Hare 1944 Warner Bros.)