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E-Mailing Aromas May Be Next Multimedia Experience |
axxxr
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Smell detectors are not new. Currently used to detect cyanide gases and rotten fish, industrial smellers "are expensive and wouldn't be appropriate for multimedia use," says University of Alberta researcher Mrinal Mandal. The new PC e-nose is made "entirely with inexpensive electronic parts that can be found in any local hardware store."
"Imagine you are a thousand miles from home, and your mother cooks your favorite meal for you. Then she takes a photo of it and sends it to you by e-mail," said University of Alberta spokesperson Ryan Smith. "When you open the photo, a wave of aroma -- your Mom's cooking -- fills the air."
If the smell of Mom's cooking blends any of ten different odor groups -- from citrus fruits to aromatic spices -- the new University of Alberta e-nose will detect it, say the nose's inventors, electrical and computer engineering professor Mrinal Mandal and research associate Rafael Castro.
"The device connects to a PC, which then determines what smell the electronic nose has captured," explained Castro, who reported the project with Mandal in a recent IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
A mass-produced, inexpensive electronic nose "may become available sometime in the next five to ten years
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Elrond
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I saw it a month ago on a TV. Imagine this. You open an e-mail and a smell of old used socks come out. Or a virus which produce this smell all the time 
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axxxr
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Yeh i did'nt think of that!..
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Posted: 2004-04-20 21:44
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