It is possible to send messages with… smells with oPhone

An international team of researchers is set to present, in February 2014 and later this summer in Cambridge, a prototype technology that will allow the transmission of odors via mobile phone. The device, called oPhone, uses special postage-stamp-sized "cassettes" that can record and reproduce a multitude of odors.

Each oChip contains data about the sense of smell, capable of producing hundreds of olfactory signals. In the future, there is the prospect of breeding thousands of odors from the special chip, researchers note, which when connected to a mobile phone will allow smells to be sent to another Ophone that will reproduce the smell.

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The project was implemented by a team led by David Edwards, founder of Le Laboratoire and the Paris-based ArtScience Lab , with students and engineers from Harvard and MIT. The Ophone will be unveiled and tested publicly at the official opening of the universities’ new Laboratoire Lab, where Ophone will send out the electronic equivalent of the smell of an espresso.

The project was launched in Harvard in the spring of 2012 in an effort to create an "international communication language," with Harryard's Harvard graduate and oPhone designer, Amy Yin, a Harvard student, and Eyal Shahar (Engineer, MIT). In the autumn of 2012 the band expanded with the participation of Baptiste Viala and Laurent Milon of Studio Millimetre and the project was launched. The real technological breakthrough is the OPhone connection with a Bluetooth mobile phone and signal transmission. Then the app oTrack was developed that can play music related to the sense of smell that is transmitted and send or receive the "virtual" smell.

By connecting the iPhone to both iPhone and app oTracks, the user will be able to send a smell at the touch of a button, Professor Edwards explains.

More about OPhone's scheduled presentations can be found at http://vaporcommunication.com/locations/

You can watch the video from the first presentation of the oPhone on 14 May 2013 by the head of the project:

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