This phone sends smells

Hey does anyone  remember the ages when people used to send letter and perfume them, especially when you were sending the letter to you girlfriend, well technology is taking as back there. The ophone does not only  send text message but also smells.Sensory engineers have gone beyond sight and sound to invent smell centered communication.
"Our motto is 'aroma tells a thousand pictures'", says Dr. David Edwards, biomedical engineer at Harvard and founder of Le Laboratoire, known for producing radical sensory devices such as calorie-free chocolate spray. Every human has thousands of distinct smell sensors, Edwards explains, a resource he taps with his newest invention the oPhone.Set for a beta launch in July, this phone offers the most sophisticated smell messaging yet created. In collaboration with Paris perfumers Givaudan and baristas Café Coutume, Edwards has created a menu of scents, contained in 'Ochips'. MIT electrical engineer Eyal Shahar designed containers for them that release when heated by the touch of a button, but cool quickly to keep smells distinct and localized, a historic difficulty with the much-mocked smell-o-vision experiments in cinema.This is according to CNN tech segment in there website.
  The oPhone user can mix and match aromas and then send their composition as a message, which will be recreated on a fellow user's device. Up to 356 combinations will be possible in the first wave, rising to several thousand in the next year, and the dream is an exhaustive base -- the 'universal chip'
The first oPhones will be limited to a select community of coffee enthusiasts. But the launch on July 10 will be accompanied by a more inclusive product: the first olfactory social network.

A free app will allow anyone to compose and send a smell note by text or email, based on a set menu of aromas and variations. The message can be received by any normal phone as a text. The recipient can then download the composition from hotspots which will be set up in the launch city of Boston.

"We're expecting an interest in self-expression and we're ready to learn with the public", says Edwards. "We would like to be reactive as new ideas for aromatic vocabularies arise, and to continue providing them for new interests."

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