The idea of aroma-emitting TV sets is being extended to websites by Ricoh of
Japan, which wants to equip both TVs and computers with devices that eject
smells that go with the programme or website you’ve chosen (EP 831 384). Ricoh
says Web pages could carry data pulses which trigger a mechanical device in the
PC or TV to crush capsules of aromatic agents—and odour-masking agents, so
that one pong doesn’t mix with the next. A site on forestry should smell of
trees…surf to an oceanographer’s site and the whiff of salt water will ensue.
Passionate e-mails, of course, could release posh perfume.
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