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Hell yeah I was just telling my colleagues about this technology and an article I read in Wired back in the late 90s on these folks. Smell has a negative conno
by wavefunction 8y ago
Hell yeah I was just telling my colleagues about this technology and an article I read in Wired back in the late 90s on these folks.
Smell has a negative connotation. Scent is generally more pleasant in my opinion. Perhaps it was a marketing blunder.
iScents has both the double entendre and 90s cachet for the "i-thing" naming convention craze.
- DonHopkins 8y agoClassic Marc Canter interview. I'm surprised they could smell the output of the iSmell USB device over the pungent bouquet from all the joints he was smoking. https://www.wired.com/1999/11/digiscent/ https://www.wired.com/1999/11/digiscent/ "You know, I don't think the transition from wood smoke to bananas worked very well." -Marc Canter You're right that iThings were a huge craze in 1999. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EExgxtJjRS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EExgxtJjRS8