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thenewgreen  ·  3853 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: From Paris, with Smell.

I couldn't gather whether the o-phone detected the smells, coded them and then sent them to the receiving device or did people on the sending side program (manually) what the receiving side would get? Any idea?

    the reasoning behind this is that it takes humans about three to four seconds after exposure to detect a scent, and about ten seconds after that to reach saturation, or olfactory fatigue — the point at which the epithelium is overwhelmed enough to be temporarily unable to distinguish new aroma molecules.
-I've experienced olfactory fatigue before, it's a bummer that we cannot hang in there longer at things like wine tastings, flower shops, bakeries etc.

cW, I think you would enjoy this read.