oPhone’s Smell Technology Comes To eBooks, Songs & Bracelets

Remember, a year back we had talked about the oPhone Can Send Smelly Messages - Let's Welcome Aromatic Communication, an iDevice attachment that allowed you to send aromas/smelly messages to another oPhone user. The creator of the oPhone, Professor David Edwards of Vapor Communications has come up with three new products that use the oPhone technology in various ways. The first product is the oBook. When you are reading a book on an oPhone connected device such as an iPhone or iPad it shall recognise the “scent tag” on a page of the book and combine the scent chips or oChips to produce the aroma as described in the page of the book. Currently, the creators of the oBooks are showcasing Goldilocks & The Three Bears (the Smelly Version), at the Sensorial Storytelling exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.


Next we have the oMusic and by now you might have deduced that it has something to do smells enhancing the effect of a particular song. Since there are millions of songs in the world and it would be impossible to choose one to everybody’s liking, so the makers of oMusic decided to compose one with the help of composer Daniel Peter Biro. The team also roped in master perfumer Christophe Laudamiel to create fragrances to compliment the song “Memory: Witness of the Unimaginable” that is currently an exhibit at the Le Laboratoire Cambridge.


Even though the above creations are for demonstrative purposes only, they certainly point towards a future that will see more platforms of education and entertainment using the smell technology developed by Vapor Communications. Finally we would like to inform you about a bracelet from the company that you can actually buy. The not-so-smartly titled oBracelet costs just $10. The oBracelet has specially made eyelets in which the company slips in one of two fragrances. While the first one is good old chocolate, the second one is called Silence and the purpose of it is quite bewildering. According to its creator Christophe Laudamiel, the silence fragrance acts in the same way silence helps you listen better. To make it more clear, the scent of Silence will help you be more attentive to the scents around you. So does that mean Silence is odourless? We aren’t so sure of spending ten dollars on that right now.

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