Thursday, May 1, 2008

Ridiculous Item of the Day: Scent Text Messaging Patented

A couple of companies in Germany have patented technology that enables sending scented text messages between phones. You know what this means: bring on the fart messages. Actually, the way the system will work is by triggering one of 100 pre-defined scents on a chip in the phone, which seems less exciting and precise than what people would want to use it for. Yeah, being able to send a generic watermelon scent to someone is cool, I guess, but what if you want to send the specific scent of a dish you're eating to someone?
http://gizmodo.com/386154/scent-text-messaging-patented-get-ready-to-smell-farts-from-3000-miles-away

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