Two years ago, Trisenx introduced the ScentDome, now they're moving to the next level. Scenttv.tv will launch March 27:
Scenttv.tv, Inc. will launch its revolutionary Scented Web Broadcast Portal and from that day forward the global communications experience, as we have known it, will be forever changed. www.scenttv.tv delivers an enhanced "multi-sensory" digital experience by providing users the ability to smell content from the world-wide web. This historic event will introduce scent enabled content (SEC) and the ScentDomeTM.
Scenttv.tv Community of Users will be able to literally smell the scent enabled content of movies, games, music videos, educational curriculum, favorite television programs, aroma therapy sessions, their own personalized scented web pages with videos and commercial ads. Scenttv.tv Broadcast News Personalities will report realtime Bloggers News 24/7. In addition, creative individuals will be able to upload their own personal Aromasodes.
Read more at prweb.
This is the second try for this kind of technology. In the famous "internet
boom" of the nineties, another company called iSmell tried and failed.
Their product was selling for $269, while Scent.tv's product is going for $369.
The problem remains the same, why would a consumer buy an expensive peripheral
that has very little content designed for it? And why would a content provider
spend the time and money creating content for a device that hs very little penetration
in the market? There are obvious uses for this technology, like selling perfumes
online, but considering
that most people who buy perfume online are just purchasing something they have
previously worn or smelled, then this product still does not add value.
This is the second try for this kind of technology. In the famous “internet boom” of the nineties, another company called iSmell tried and failed.
Their product was selling for $269, while Scent.tv's product is going for $369.
The problem remains the same, why would a consumer buy an expensive peripheral that has very little content designed for it? And why would a content provider spend the time and money creating content for a device that has very little penetration in the market?
There are obvious uses for this technology, like selling perfumes
online, but considering that most people who buy perfume online are just purchasing something they have previously worn or smelled, then this product still does not add value.
Have to agree, it is hard to see how they'll find many takers given the cost. They do say they have lined up content providers, but I don't know the companies involved so no idea what you'd have available to “smell” if you were willing to pay the $369 — and I assume you have to also buy scent refills, so it would not be a cheap proposition.