Wear one to the movies, for example, and you could use an app on your phone to program it to play along, dispensing discreet scents at key moments. The ultimate device is nowhere near ready, Duerinck acknowledges – its current size and battery life are hurdles, as is the quality of the scent and the projection. But he remains optimistic.

— Smellovision, still in the works after all these years. Read more in The people who want to send smells through your TV at BBC.

“Now, I believe we’re just a few years away from tel-e-smell — telephones that accurately record and recreate smells,” said Noam Sobel, the neurobiology professor behind the research, which has just been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

— Read more in Digitizing odors: Israelis whiff the future with ‘smellophone’ tech breakthrough at The Times of Israel.

On Wednesday night, in the basement theater of New York's Rubin Museum, audience members were passed a squat metal cylinder and instructed to take a whiff before passing it along to their neighbor. On a projection screen, an animated movie called Alex and Wonderland followed the daydreams of an androgynous cartoon character as he travels the world from jungle to beach.

As the hero's adventures unfolded, the device released a corresponding "scent track"—the sweet scent of pineapple or an overwhelming burst of suntan lotion—that heightened the sensorial experience in a way similar to how a music score would.

— Read more at The Harvard Professor Who Is Digitizing Scent at Co.Design. If you have access to the New Yorker, you might also read Will Smell Ever Come to Smartphones? Hat tip to everyone who sent me links to the various articles about the Cyrano device!

It was the smell that hit me first, a heady mixture of roasting meat, woodsmoke, and farmyard manure. Nearby I could hear a low murmured conversation—but the words were muffled and unclear. I could see piles of stones clustered across the edge of a bleak Cornish moorland hillside and an ominous raincloud gathering over the closest hill.

— Stuart Eve uses ambient aromas from Dale Air (do check out the vast selection!) to enhance an augmented-reality visit to a village in Bronze Age Cornwall. Read more at Finding Out What the Past Smelled Like at The Atlantic. Hat tip to Jirish!