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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/04/07/mobile.scent.ap/index.html

I am disturbed yet awed. I sense great mischief potential...

... now, when someone says their cell service stinks... :p

Farts will be number one. Count on it.

First the iVibrator (http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20060525/ivibrator/) and now the "iSmell"?

Japanese are frigging kinky.

Interesting how they manage it.
They'l have sound, sight and smell able to be transferred, all they need now is taste and touch.
Taste would be a bit tricky though.
I suppse they could do touch to a degree, as in they have a little connection of electronic microblocks which move to a particular pattern with the right code entered, although they wouldn't be able to do water.

I warn you

If Lunatic Gofballs can download the smell of chocolate, he might eat his phone

just a warning if he has to crunch his abs to answer when he gets a call:D

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/04/07/mobile.scent.ap/index.html

I am disturbed yet awed. I sense great mischief potential...

For a brief moment I thought we'd actually managed to somehow digitize scents, but it turns out it just tells the phone to mix stuff that's already in it.

It's original, certainly, but not very useful.

It's original, certainly, but not very useful.

Yes, I too wonder what the useful application of this technology is.

Yes, I too wonder what the useful application of this technology is.

Since when has a lack of useful application ever stopped the Japanese?

They have these little MP3 players that "dance" to music. Useful application? They have dance competitions with them.

Since when has a lack of useful application ever stopped the Japanese?

exactly

*smells Rhyno's cellphone*

Why does your cellphone smell like mole @$$?
;)

exactly

*smells Rhyno's cellphone*

Why does your cellphone smell like mole @$$?
;)

God dammit, what has moley been doing with my cellphone while I wasn't looking!?

Ironically, I have an LG "Chocolate".

God dammit, what has moley been doing with my cellphone while I wasn't looking!?

Ironically, I have an LG "Chocolate".

lol

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/04/07/mobile.scent.ap/index.html

I am disturbed yet awed. I sense great mischief potential...

Trust the Japanese to come up with freaking scented cellphone downloads. They have a Toto toilet that already masks the odors of your pooping with peach scents. It was only a small matter of time before it came to cellphones.:p

lol

Something tells me Lunatic Goofballs is going to be pleased about my phone.

Something tells me Lunatic Goofballs is going to be pleased about my phone.

You realize this means that we each have our own LG.

I have an LG VX8300

You realize this means that we each have our own LG.

I have an LG VX8300

Yeah. When I got my chocolate, it was called the chocolate, and it only came in the one color.

Incidentally, they were still working out all the kinks of music phones. I'm slightly miffed that I can't set an MP3 as my ringtone.

This is not nearly as cool as if they'd gotten cell phones to play the brown note when you get a call.

This is not nearly as cool as if they'd gotten cell phones to play the brown note when you get a call.

*starts designing*

*starts designing*

LG, as soon as it works, I'm calling you on it. Repeatedly. Then I want a replica sent to my roommate. I might finally have a way to get him away from the TV.

I really hope this doesn't become mainstream. Even IF all the scents were pleasant (and come on, we're just not that adult) I'm really sensitive to smell and the mix of that many perfumes would make me puke. I mean, I gag when I walk by someone who's put on too much cologne. I almost threw up in an anthro lab with skulls that were like 50 years old. They start scenting cell phones, they're going to end up with Ryadn-vomit-scented phones.

I really don't see why you'd want it, but it could lead to some interesting applications. :p

*starts designing*

You will fail. The so-called brown note does not exist.

You will fail. The so-called brown note does not exist.

Killjoy.

But yes, I have seen that Mythbusters.