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Weird robotic reek

Posted by Robin on 28 October 2009 10 Comments

The K-9 Unit of the New Jersey Department of Corrections, while training seven recently acquired cell-phone-sniffing dogs, first put a whole bunch of cell-phone parts in a plastic box to create a kind of sachet of cell-phone scent for use in imprinting. The basic, pervasive cell-phone smell that built up in the closed box was powerful—a sweetish, metallic, ozoney, weird robotic reek.

— Ian Frazier in Scratch and Sniff at The New Yorker.

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  1. RossM says:
    28 October 2009 at 9:18 am

    Insert gag about Comme De Garcon here…

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    • Robin says:
      28 October 2009 at 9:22 am

      Yep!

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  2. jirish says:
    28 October 2009 at 9:20 am

    Makes me think of CdG. Could go right up there with Garage, right?

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    • Robin says:
      28 October 2009 at 9:22 am

      Yep again!

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  3. Absolute Scentualist says:
    28 October 2009 at 10:17 am

    Just throw in a faint floral note and some incense and there ya go. Oh, and make it a limited edition hand painted glass flacon tucked in a brushed steel case for $350 while we’re at it and voila! 😀

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    • Robin says:
      28 October 2009 at 11:18 am

      LOL…price that down a bit and I’d probably buy it!

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  4. Joe says:
    28 October 2009 at 12:17 pm

    Probably smells far better than the “bedbug sachet” that they use to train other sniffing dogs.

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    • Robin says:
      28 October 2009 at 1:03 pm

      Ack!

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  5. Dolly says:
    28 October 2009 at 3:05 pm

    If you threw in some sandalwood, I’d give it a shot.

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    • Robin says:
      28 October 2009 at 9:48 pm

      A bit of sandalwood never hurts.

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