A team at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is working on a new device that would allow users to "record" a fragrance:
Inventors are on the verge of creating the first mobile 'smellophone', a gadget which can capture an odour and then replay it back later, just as camcorders do with images.
Read more in the Daily Mail. Many thanks to Ruth for the link!
Is there any other appropriate word for this, than “Wow?”
This certainly sounds too amazing to be true and I wonder if it will smell as such, too. I suppose someone will be working a dream recorder next…
I will be interested to see more detailed stories on this in the future. I can only imagine that it will not be cheap!