Japanese Scientists Make Odor Recorder

Scientists at Japan’s Tokyo Institute of Technology are developing a gadget that promises to record, replicate and even send odors!

The device analyzes smells through 15 sensors, records the recipe for the odor in digital format and then chooses from some 96 chemicals to vaporize the results.

Nakamoto Takamichi is the creator.

Takamichi thinks the device will be used in food and fragrance industries. Even if the food tastes bad, at least it will smell good, eh? Gives new meaning to the phrase ‘eating with your nose.’

The recODOR has successfully recreated a range of fruit smells – oranges, bananas, and lemons…but, Takamichi says, it can be programmed to produce any odor – from old fish to gasoline.

Nothing, I hope, will ever reproduce the smells of one of my old college buddies.

Eventually smells might be recorded in a cell phone and then sent to, well, anywhere.

Buyers can smell the flowers online BEFORE they purchase and send them.

Problem is, right now, it would be a pretty big mobile phone. The, um, gadget is 3 X 2 feet big.

But…remember, it’s Japan. And in Japan, smaller is best. It won’t be long before this thing will indeed fit into your mobile phone.

What do you think?