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The Scent Rhythm Watch Tells Time By Releasing Fragrances
Zothecula writes "Glancing at a clock face in one form or another has been the de facto way to measure the passage of time. Aisen Caro Chacin though, is exploring a different perspective. She wants to give everyone the ability to tell time using their noses. Her chemical-based watch called the Scent Rhythm emits specially-designed fragrances in minute doses, in tune with circadian cycle of the human body. You get a fragrance of coffee in the morning, the smell of money in the afternoon, a relaxing whiskey scent in the evening, and a soothing chamomile fragrance at night. More than being merely pleasant, each chemically-supplemented scent aims to induce action appropriate to the time of day; the caffeine in the coffee scent for example, aims to trigger the person into being more active."
I don't want to smell other people's scent watches all the time. What if everyone had one? I wonder if you could play a joke and replace the coffee scent with fart scent.
Time for a shower when my timex smells like ass.
C-C-C-C-COCAINE!
the scent of a woman.....
I've got multiple allergies and chemical sensitivities, you insensitive clod!
Probably a good idea but for some reason it makes me think of a woman throwing a goat off the roof.
Seriously, the Chinese had pretty much this from the mid 900's.
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Just smells like marijuana all the time ?
I have a cold. What time is it?
I already have scents that tell me the time:
- Morning farts tell me it's time to get up
- The company's secretary's overpowering patchouli perfume tells me it's past 10 am (and that she's late to work again)
- Greasy odors from the fish and chips next door tell me it's almost noon
- Beer burps from my bro tell me it's past 4pm
- Burnt smells from my wife's cooking tell me it's almost 8 pm (and that I'm not all that hungry)
- The faint smell of vaseline tells me it's time for bed (and that missus is horny)
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
the smell of money in the afternoon
But... money has no smell !??
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Searching for the translation for the french "L'argent n'a pas d'odeur", it seems the english equivalent has no widespread use? Anyway, I just learned that the expression dates back from almost two thousand years ago.
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For the curious here are the google results:
"l'argent n'a pas d'odeur": About 1,540,000 results (0.21 seconds)
"money has no smell": About 17,000 results (0.22 seconds)
"money doesn't stink": About 155,000 results (0.12 seconds)
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Have gnu, will travel.
Wow, you think people are going to wear that? Does it come with a free t-shirt with "I am an idiiot" written on it?
California. There is no way this nonsense could have come from anywhere else. I wonder if it runs from "healing crystals" rather than quartz ones.
Then scroll down to the author bio and revel in the sheer entertainment on offer from whatever the hell this site is meant to be :
About the Author
Lakshmi Sandhana
When Lakshmi first encountered pig's wings in a petri dish, she realized that writing about scientists and imagineers was the perfect way to live in an expanding mind bubble.
It'd smell like BS around the clock.
So seems to me such a watch should be easy to download at home.
Oh, that's just dog shit on my shoe.
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/hsprograms/scent_free.html
Smell of money in the afternoon: I wonder why conclusion we can have on the person that decided afternoon should scent money.
Oh, yes, it's bored "hacker" o'clock!
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Aisen Caro Chacin. Wacky but nothing you haven't heard of before.
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How long until we hit rock bottom?
The smell of coffee just triggers my morning constitutional. Nothing wrong with that per se.
Totally Behind this 1000%! WOO! Go HUMANS!
Yup it's 6AM
You know, are actually useful, rather than overly artistic to the point of nonfunctionality?
I'd fill mine with cadaverine and mercaptan then put it near the desk of the woman that bathes and gargles in Emerude, cause she cooks up the bacon and brings it home like a man.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
Ah yes, skip the blog spam and go directly to the actual spam, brilliant. How about I just skip this story.
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This watch has nothing meaningful to do with how your circadian timing system actually works.
Cutting the day into 4 pieces? I'm pretty sure I can guess the time +/- 2 hours without any help.
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Does it emit the smell of the ocean right before bed?
First, if your circadian rhythm is so exquisitely timed (and it is), why use a watch that arbitrarily cuts the day into four parts?
Second, there is no reason to believe that smelling things four times a day can synchronize your rhythms.
Third, these are "homeopathic" doses of the magic stuff she claims works. Sniffing a minute whiff of caffeine in the air around you has an indistinguishable-from-zero effect. Were it otherwise, heart patients would have a tough time walking past a Starbucks.
Finally, you can get a Ph.D. for writing this: "Does our psychological perception of scent- e.g. incense= relax, coffee= wake up, directly related to the chemical synapses they induce?"
Yikes.
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Yeah, the clock face being de facto is also a bit limited--there are plenty of places (probably mostly colleges) where clocktowers toll the hour or chime the quarter-hour marks. Really we can tell time with any sense we want--I'm sure there are braile watches, for example.
What scent for sexy time? Fish? Cheese? Candles? Leather? Urine? Feces?
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
But I need a cloclk that can tell me if I'm still on time for my 3:25 meeting and not if it's morning, afternoon or night.
That's what the big sky-light outside is for.
bickerdyke
Now that nobody has jobs anymore, I guess it's not important to know precisely what time it is... Is there a "Vienna Sausage o'clock" so people know to go pick up their welfare checks?
I've always wanted a clock that could tell me whether it's morning, afternoon or evening.
Aside from annoying everyone else w/ your scentochronometer, it's a waste of resources. Repackage into a nose-piercing and it'll be both more economical and better targeted.
Still incredibly stupid, but heck, the guy who invented Pet Rocks got rich. So if they'll buy it, you should build it.
https://app.box.com/WitthoftResume Code: https://github.com/cellocgw
One of the key things about most autistic people (probably all but it's only recently one of the diagnostic criteria) is a problem with filtering certain sensory stimuli. A person with autism will find some stimuli very pleasant and others distracting at best and often quite distressing. This is why kids having issues with tags in clothing or scratchy fabrics or weird or picky eating habits is one of the early diagnostic signs.
In addition to other sensory issues (glare when driving, understanding speech in echoey environments etc) and sensory talents (seeing reflections in things with lower specularity than most would be able to perceive, hearing changes in a computer's activity), I have differences in olfactory perception. Specifically, I just don’t smell some flowers that I am told are quite pleasant, I find it very distracting to be in the same room with someone with a fungal infection no matter how small, , and being in the same building when someone uses truffle salt or truffle oil gives me an instant headache and shutdown.
Imagine visiting a foreign culture where you barely understand the language and customs and have been shown multiple times (by beatings) that the people there are actively hostile to anyone who doesn't fit in. So you have to actively and consciously think about every word you say and every microexpression you make because sometimes even smiling means something offensive. Add on top of that that you look weaker than you really are because everybody else walks around flexing their muscles ALL the time and some people are actively targeting the weak. Add on top of that a pattern, texture, sound or smell that you CAN’T ignore and is very distracting.
So yeah, I have scent sensitive autism, which is not a type of autism because I also have sight, sound, and touch sensitive autism. But this discussion is about something that intentionally adds smells.