Forget Telepresence! Smellepresence Is Here At Last
Chat Perf Rocket News 24A Japanese invention allows you to send smells via phone. Sort of. According to the news site RocketNews24, the Japanese company Chaku Perfume has "developed a new communication service in the way of an iPhone application and device called "Chat Perf," which can send smells across cyber space. Amazing!" Yes! We think this sounds amazing, too! Wouldn't it be great to be able to share the scent of a bakery you just walked past with a friend hundreds of miles away? Or capture the smell of autumn? Or be like, "What is that smell? I'll share it with my friends; maybe they can tell me." Except, Chat Perf is not quite going to make that possible. Based on the story's description, it seems that the new app is only capable of releasing, upon a remotely issued command, whatever odor has been stored in the smell tank attached...