NTT Mobile scent over Internet

Scent over Internet, smell over Internet, odor over Internet… seems scent over Internet has the best connotations, and the topic is hot in 2010. Listen to software developer Alberto Betella on the podcast interview* Techistan shares. Alberto explains… not such a silly idea.

According to Encyclopedia.com and a Business Wire from February 27, 2001, Trisenx, Inc. (www.trisenx.com) was the first company to deliver fragrances AND flavors electronically. They demonstrated how to sample scents and aromas over the Internet at the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association (CTFA) Annual Meeting March 1-4, 2001 in Boca Raton, FL.

Interesting that around February 28, 2007, Korea’s Ministry of Information and Communication said to the Korean Times that it should be possible to transmit smells through broadband pipelines.

“Its scent will be digitalized as numerous ones and zeroes strung together before traveling through the Internet to the computers of end users,” Mr. Ryoo said.

What about “Smell-o-Phone?” The Japanese have taken their most used electronic device, the mobile phone and created a mobile fragrance communication service. According an Engadget article, our cell phone will be able to download fragrance information from QR codes or the Internet.

How Stuff Works has an introduction to How Internet Odors Will Work, Creating a Virtual Stink, Using E-Smells, and more. An interest statement worth mulling over, “We have the ability to recognize thousands of odors; and some scientists believe that smell has the power to unlock memories.”

Get involved in discussion of scent over Internet as well as other possible trends and innovations for this next decade on TelecomYou.

More websites to check out on this topic:

Marketing with scent over Internet

Incorporating the sense of smell into patient and haptic surgical simulators

Warwick Nose

Follow your Noise

* Podcast has a few seconds accidentally clipped at the beginning.