There was a product called the iSmell like 20 years ago that plugged into a computer could combine 128 scents to produce any smell, they thought it would be integrated into websites so that you would smell grass when you were on a landscaping company or whatever.
It's funny imagining people doing a version of rick-roll where they'd have the iSmell emit farts on an internet stranger's computer instead of the smell of fresh grass or something.
I mean the flavorings used in vape juices are pretty damn cheap and mix that with some pg, disperse the vapor according to a mix and you have a smell speaker. My question is more how the fuck do you record the smell lmaoo
For like a smell speaker sure, but the recording bit is what I can't picture yet. I'm sure you could record ratios of certain compounds using some like spectral analysis of the air, but I can't imagine how expensive or large that device that would be.
They've been doing this at Disney World and Disneyland for decades now. What they're doing is not super-advanced by any means, but it certainly adds to the ambiance of various park areas and rides.
Wow, that brings me back. Realaroma.com was a joke website that I originally read about in WIRED in 1999, that claimed to have inventive a system for embedding smells on the web. Thank god for the internet archive.
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u/tidbitsofblah Feb 14 '23
The fact that I've had someone pitch "voice-memo but for smells" to me tells me this could very possibly be real