Researchers zap nostrils in hope of creating internet of smells

Not too long ago, Google claimed to have a developed a search engine for smells. Google Nose, as it was called, was said to be capable of offering “the sharpest olfactory experience available.” The company claimed that its Street Sense vehicles had ‘inhaled’ and indexed millions of atmospheric miles helping them build a search engine with a database of 15 million smells, which sounded too good to be true. And naturally, it was. The smell internet was Google’s idea of an April Fool’s prank back in 2013. Now, the joke may be on Google as a new digital smell research…

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https://ift.tt/2q1Rofy Vishwam Sankaran October 19, 2018 at 06:00AM