German Company Patents A Smell-Phone

By Mariella on Monday, May 5th, 2008 comments

Just recently, NTT unveiled its external scent atomizer which gives off smells depending on one's commands sent through the mobile phone. Germany now follows suit...

Germany-based company ConVisual, announced the patented chip which can send scents via MMS or text messaging. Let me rephrase that: subscribers could send any of the 100 available smells from their mobile phones' to other peoples' as long as both are designed for this new technology. So, this means that if you're on a vacation in a tropical island somewhere and you want your mates to feel envious, you can send them the scent of the sea breeze. Or if you're celebrating an anniversary, you can send an MMS of a bouquet which elicits the smell of roses. Since special phones are needed to uses the chip, ConVisual is currently seeking partnerships with mobile phone companies. Who knows, our German friends might be having their smell-phones soon.

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