Science Scent Generator Threatens to Waft Odorama Into the 21st Century - Polidicks

Source: [url]http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/17/scent-generator-threatens-to-waft-odorama-into-the-21st-century/[/url] [quote] Finally, an invention John Waters can get behind. When the harbinger of filth brought the odiferous experience to screenings of Polyester, he took the scratch-and-sniff route -- including scents like glue and feces -- now a team of researchers at the University of California in San Diego are expanding on the smell-what-you-see concept, albeit in a much more high-tech fashion. In collaboration with the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, the team has developed a method for generating odors that could pack the appropriate hardware into a device "small enough to fit on the back of your TV." Basically, scents are produced by an aqueous solution, like ammonia, which is heated by a thin metal wire, and eventually expelled, as an odorous gas, from a small hole in its silicone elastomer housing -- and, bam! You've got Smell-O-Vision. The team has tested its method using perfumes by Jennifer Lopez and Elizabeth Taylor, but have yet to create a working prototype. For the sake of innocent noses everywhere, let's hope Mr. Waters doesn't get a whiff of this. [/quote] Reminds me of Futurama.

Fuck yes, divert funding from cancer research, THIS is real science

I [I]smell[/I] a rule 34 coming on this one.

If used well this could be fucking awesome. Imagine watching a movie like Saving Private Ryan in which you could smell things like gun powder, and burning wood from a bombed out building. Or imagine watching Avatar and you could smell alien pollen in the air as they ventured through the vast jungles. If used appropriately it could be fucking awesome.

[QUOTE=sltungle;30516259]If used well this could be fucking awesome. Imagine watching a movie like Saving Private Ryan in which you could smell things like gun powder, and burning wood from a bombed out building. Or imagine watching Avatar and you could smell alien pollen in the air as they ventured through the vast jungles. If used appropriately it could be fucking awesome.[/QUOTE] or you're watching the human centipede and the aromatic smell of fecal matter and dried blood permeates the air.

[QUOTE=TropicalV2;30516368]or you're watching the human centipede and the aromatic smell of fecal matter and dried blood permeates the air.[/QUOTE] I watched that movie with a bunch of friends while we were all drinking so, at least to me, that movie was fucking hilarious. I started singing 'Stuck in the Middle with You' at the end of that movie when the guy at the front and the girl at the back died.

Imagine the possibilities of porn with this...

Oh god imagine Man VS wild with this. Scent Generator? Drink Piss.

Watch documentaries of the industrial revolution. The lovely smell of soot and molten steel. The smell of progress.

OH GOD, PORN... It would smell of sweat, perfume, old clothes, and semen.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;30517140]OH GOD, PORN... It would smell of sweat, perfume, old clothes, and semen.[/QUOTE] And dirty pussy.

I demand a Napoleonic era game with this. Black Powder smoke, mmmm.

This sounds awesome. Highway scenes with the scent of car fumes, rainy scenes with the scent of pertichor (smell of dust after rain), cafe scenes with the scent of coffee... The list goes ever on and on, just like the road.

[QUOTE=ironman17;30518400]pertichor (smell of dust after rain)[/QUOTE] A billion thanks to you, kind sir! I've always wanted a word to describe that smell! (Also, it's pert[b]r[/b]ichor, apparently.)

Does this mean you'll constantly have to refill your scent cartridges? It'd be like printers all over again.

Cooking programmes are going to become so much more irritating for two reasons: Something smells nice and you're going to be all "holy fuck I'm so hungry now oh there's nothing to eat" Something smells like pickled dogshit

Smell-O-Vision is still idiotic. It'd technically be telesmelling, which sounds a lot more funny. :v:

Aside from the pornographic use for this, I can see companies like McDonald's and other restaurants making big use of this.

[QUOTE=geogzm;30518576]Cooking programmes are going to become so much more irritating for two reasons: Something smells nice and you're going to be all "holy fuck I'm so hungry now oh there's nothing to eat" Something smells like pickled dogshit[/QUOTE] I guess you could always... uhh... mute(?) the smell? If mute means to not make noise, what is the version of that for scent?

[QUOTE=sltungle;30518703]I guess you could always... uhh... mute(?) the smell? If mute means to not make noise, what is the version of that for scent?[/QUOTE] De-Scent?

What a terrible fucking useless idea. Why the hell would I want to fill my living room with the baked in odor of McDonalds Commercials on top of Golf Channel Turf, on top of Cooking Network Burnt Tuna, on top of Sports Network sweat, with undertones of Fox News cologne and shit.

Haha, worst idea ever. If you change the scene the smell doesn't automatically go away you know.

[QUOTE=Clavus;30561658]Haha, worst idea ever. If you change the scene the smell doesn't automatically go away you know.[/QUOTE] God help you if you watch 2girls1cup then.

Buying Scarface and set on repeat as soon as this comes out. Snort coke all day.

[QUOTE=Clavus;30561658]Haha, worst idea ever. If you change the scene the smell doesn't automatically go away you know.[/QUOTE] You can neutralize odors you know... I'm pretty sure the people designing this know a bit more than you do.