Scents via PC

[CJ01]

Some of you might well know this already but there´s a type of printer out on the market wich allows you to smell stuff for example if you´re buying a new cologne but want to sample it first.
Their website is http://TriSenx.com (\"http://TriSenx.com\")

It´s expensive but very interesting in terms of technology (imagine getting someone exited via a PC images/icons/laugh.gif )....one day maybe.
CJ

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Wow very interesting. Didn\'t know they could do that already. Too bad they don\'t have any information on how they\'ve accomplished that feat.

[Chemist]

A scent machine is much like a printer - the cartridge mixes components together to produce the descired output. We\'ve already figured out how to synthesize any color from a mixture of primaries and each color occupies a specific wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum. However, with smells, we havne\'t quite abstracted the sense down to something so discrete and reproducible. Some smells can be created or simulated with esters or some organic compunds, but it\'s not so simple as a 6 or 7 color cartridge on a photo printer. Although this smell technology is intriguing, I find it a little hard to believe that it could be comprehensive enough to come close to reproducing any smell at whim. It probably does a select few very well. At this point, what comes to mind to make a technology like this successful is something like Star Trek transporter technology!

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Oh heck technology is going weird just heard something on the radio on how scientists have figured out how to make babies without men (exowomb) interesting sci fi and a cheaper way back to that new smeller printer or another way to make pheromones in your own home, god how advanced is technology getting, we are living in very interesting times arent we

[rjm]

Yes, we are, but I\'ve heard that \"May you live in interesting times is an old Chinese curse.\" 8^0

Randy

[rjm]

Whoops, should have read:\"May you live in interesting times\" is an old Chinese curse.

\"May you be an interesting typist!\" :-)

R.

[a.k.a.]

Speaking of weird technology... I recently read an article (in Earth Island Journal) about Indian scientists that are trying to splice chameleon genes into elephant eggs — so that the elephants can hide from poachers. (They\'ve already invented green vultures; but the poor things are structurally malformed and can\'t stand up on their own feet.)

Anybody that thinks technology is scarry should ( or maybe shouldn\'t ) read one of Greg Egan\'s sci-fi novels.

[ July 24, 2001: Message edited by: a.k.a. ]