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I have been waiting for my own jet pack and personal robot for a few years now [damn you sci-fi programs and you high expectations of the 21ST Century], and I was hoping by now that I would be taken vacations on the moon and pleasure rides around Saturn, still it is not all bad, here is a gadget that is straight out of a science fiction story: a machine that can record a smell and play it back to you at your leisure. Present it with a designer perfume or freshly baked bread and it will analyse the odour and reproduce it for you later using a mixture of non-toxic chemicals.

Engineers hope a successful smell-recording device could be useful for online shopping – allowing customers to smell products before buying them – or to add another dimension to television. It could even be used by doctors to remotely diagnose patients, by recreating the smell of blood, bile or urine to help with a diagnosis.

In the system, there are no pre-prepared smells, just 15 chemical-sensing electric noses that can pick up a wide range of smells. Once the sensors pick up the various components of an aroma, it is re-created from an ingredient list of 96 chemicals in the machine. These chemicals can be tailored to the potential use of the gadget – a doctor and a perfumier will need to record different smells. Drops from the relevant chemicals are mixed, heated and vaporised. In tests so far, the gadget has successfully recorded and reproduced the smells of orange, lemon, apple, banana and melon.

Sounds like the gadget is a few years away from getting to the high street, but it really would add a whole new level to online gaming…..

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