Designing smells

December 7 2008

I haven’t seen a lot of stuff that work with our sense of smell, except the Nokia smell-o-phone, which is somewhere else on this blog, but that was a concept for the distant future anyway. Here is another concept, but is has a more down-to-earth approach.

I’m still sceptical with the capturing smells part, but this could easily be replaced with some aromatic oils available everywhere.

Concept by Hyun Choi

via I New Idea

Chuck Close’s homework for the week:

Can you think of any other applications where smell could work?

December 7 2008
Camille Moussette permalink

I’ve seen and tested this Straw-like interface where the goal is to recreate, partially, the sensation of drinking. It works quite well I can say and I can easily see smell being a big part of it in the future:

http://www.hi.mce.uec.ac.jp/inami-lab/en/projects/SUI/index.html
http://kaji-lab.jp/ja/index.php?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=Euro_hashimoto_final.pdf&refer=publications

December 7 2008

I saw this smell related project at ARS Electronica (from 2007) that used some kind of odor sensor to detect fragrances and display an image accordingly. I can’t find much about it online, but here’s a brief description:Hanahana.

Simple idea, but the execution was quite beautiful.

December 8 2008

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