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Unfortunately, WebSmell-o-Vision has not yet been unilaterally pushed by the dudes at Google to do this news justice, but as a croissant connaisseur I would hav
by wvbdmp 1y ago
Unfortunately, WebSmell-o-Vision has not yet been unilaterally pushed by the dudes at Google to do this news justice, but as a croissant connaisseur I would have at least appreciated a webp of the thing instead of some random archive image. It’s a stamp, for christ’s sake.
There is a pic here and it’s quite nice imo: https://www.wopa-plus.com/en/stamps/product/&pid=105515 https://www.wopa-plus.com/en/stamps/product/&pid=105515
- xattt 1y agoHere I was misreading the article that it was croissant-shaped, not scented, until I saw a picture.
- valeena 1y agoI was initially reading that it was a croissant with a stamp scent and I was confused...
- bogzz 1y agoI'm holding out for a <smell> HTML tag.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago<bouquet>
- ben_w 1y agoWhich any English person over 40 will spell <bucket> for reasons that likely make no sense to anyone outside the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_Appearances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_Appearances
- _kb 1y agoAnd of course the `olfactoryFactory` component for Enterprise™ frameworks.
- layer8 1y agofunction olfactory() { return document.createElement("ol"); }
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- classified 1y agoI bet the next version of Chrome will have that.
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- ghssds 1y agoI can't wait for nasa.gov to let everybody smell Uranus.
- gerdesj 1y agoHave a chat with your dog
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- usr1106 1y agoBut wopa-plus does even mention the essential detail? https://www.laposte.fr/pp/c/timbre-croissant-au-beurre https://www.laposte.fr/pp/c/timbre-croissant-au-beurre
- carbocation 1y agoFriendly counterpoint (I know, not actually responsive to your comment, but tangentially related): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade4401 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade4401
- tempodox 1y agoI can almost smell breakfast…
- amelius 1y agoYes, we also need a cappuccino smell stamp.
- squigz 1y agoHas there ever been any sort of even-remotely-successful smell-o-vision? We can recreate input for many of our other senses - music, visuals, touch - so why not smell?
- nativeit 1y agoPresumably the volatility inherent to “volatile chemicals” makes it challenging to reproduce on-demand. I’d imagine you’d need something like dozens of base compounds, alcohols and acids to create esters and carrier media, some way of protecting all of it from oxygen, a hyper-accurate mixing device that can then by hyper-cleaned between each scent, since our noses would be too sensitive to allow even a small amount of cross-contamination…and then, why stop at smell? You basically already have everything you need for taste as well. Insert some lab-grown tissues and/or fibers, and we’ve invented the Star Trek replicator!
- refurb 1y agoBack in the 1980s, there was a movie that was released where you could purchase a scratch and sniff card. It was dubbed “Odorama” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyester_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyester_(film) As the movie played, a number would flash on the screen, you’d scratch that number and smell the spot on the card.
- estimator7292 1y agoIsh. Our level of technology is limited to mixing a small set of base compounds on demand. That gives a range of possible scents about as small as you'd think. The problem is that your sense of smell is a complex chemical detector. There are a lot of unique molecules that you can detect. We'd have to synthesize molecules on demand to get any reasonable range of scents, basically.
- amelius 1y agoIt's kinda odd that the first sense that evolution gave us will be the last we can record/playback using our devices.