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The
new millennium spawned a fantastic development in Smell-O-Vision. DigiScents, Inc. created a prototype of what was going to
be called the iSmell in 2001. This technology would allow internet users to smell internet pages. It was a small device you
plug into a USB port that contained 128 different “smell indexes” that could be combined to form almost any scent.
The
company went bankrupt and the device never made it past the prototype stage.
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| Images from: http://dvice.com/archives/2009/02/smellit_could_s.php |
Now
SMELLIT hopes to use a similar technology they call Digital Smell Technology (DST). A device would look like the image to
the right. Unlike iSmell the device would be attached to a television set. Nuno Teixeira is
the designer developing SMELLIT using a cartridge of 118 various aromas.
You have to love the media. I was going to insert a paragraph
here about the most recent development, but due to controversy it's been completely erased from the internet. Sony is developing
a technology that allows blind people to see, deaf people to hear and anosmiacs to smell...all by transmitting signals directly
into your brain. Obviously, this technology was not well received by society. All of us disabled people need to band together
so we can experience this new world.
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