'The missing sense': why our technology addiction makes us crave smells
by Thomas McMullan from Technology | The Guardian on (#1TZ24)
Our online worlds are full of colors, words and sounds but lack something major - scents. Could that ever change?
When David Edwards founded the oPhone, he hoped scent messages would become the next big thing in the digitisation of our online lives.
The device looked like a high-tech cruet set, and allowed a friend with an iPhone app to send you bespoke olfactory messages alongside photos. Send a picture of your dinner, tag it with four different tones, and whoever's on the receiving end can sniff it from the vase-like tubes of the oPhone.