An international team of researchers is to present, in February of 2014 and later in the summer in Cambridge, a standard technology that will allow mobile phone smells to be transmitted. The device named oPhone uses special stamps that can record and reproduce a host of smells.
Each oChip contains data για την αίσθηση που προκαλεί κάθε μυρωδιά, με δυνατότητα παραγωγής εκατοντάδων οσφρητικών σημάτων. Στο μέλλον, υπάρχει η προοπτική αναπαραγωγής χιλιάδων οσμών από το ειδικό τσιπ, σημειώνουν οι ερευνητές, το οποίο όταν συνδεθεί με ένα κινητό τηλέφωνο θα επιτρέπει την αποστολή οσμών σε ένα άλλο Ophone which will reproduce the smell.
The project was implemented by the team set up by David Edwartz, its founder Le Laboratoire and ArtScience Lab based in Paris with students and engineers from Harvard and MIT. The Ophone will be presented and will be publicly tested at the official inauguration of the new Laboratoire Lab of the universities where Ophone will send the electronic equivalent of an espresso smell.
The project started in the spring of 2012 at Harvard, in an effort to create an "international language of communication", with the participation of Rachel Field (Harvard graduate and responsible for the construction of oPhone), Amy Yin (student at Harvard), and Eyal Shahar (Engineer, MIT). In the fall of 2012 the team expanded with the participation of Baptiste Viala and Laurent Milon of Studio Millimetre and the implementation began. It is characterized as a real technological achievement connection του OPhone με κινητό τηλέφωνο μέσω Bluetooth and the transmission of signals. The oTrack app was then developed which can play music related to the sense of smell being 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:
