Scratch & Sniff Web Sites

Fri Oct 15 10:39:12 EDT 1999

Life Imitates Satire Dept.

I don't recall where I first heard about this -- it may have been here on
Web4Lib.  But an outfit called RealAroma has had this idea for years.  See
http://www.realaroma.com for details.

The ZD article didn't say anything about it, but we'll know that DigiScent has
been trolling RealAroma's Web site if we start hearing about the SmellU
SmellMe(R) Aroma Conferencing software.

Rich Harrington
Hennepin Co. Law Library
Minneapolis, MN
rich.harrington at co.hennepin.mn.us
http://www.co.hennepin.mn.us/lawlibrary/lawlib.htm

Roy Tennant <rtennant at library.berkeley.edu> on 10/15/99 09:28:49 AM

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Oh great. Just when you thought it was safe to go out with your browser,
now this happens. It seems a company in California (where else?) is
working on a method to transmit smells over the Internet. The idea is that
you would have a device attached to your computer with a set of scented
oils, and the instructions to generate the smell from this portable
perfume factory would come streaming over the net while you were, say,
visiting the web site of your local sewage treatment plant. Possibilities
abound. For more (as if you haven't had enough), see the ZDNet article at:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2354314,00.html

Now what smell will *your* web site transmit?
Roy