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If It Don’t Make Dollars Then It Don’t Make Scents

If It Don't Make Dollars Then It Don't Make Scents

Wash Yourself With Soda Pop Scented Video Game Soaps, Because Why Not

by Max Eddy | 1:08 pm, January 31st

You have to hand it to Etsy seller Chrystal Doucette, she really knows her audience. She understands that the right mix of nostalgia, quirkiness, and fine craftsmanship is the key to the heart (and wallet) of any (credit) card carrying geek. That’s probably why her store specializes in soap cast into the shape of video game paraphernalia. Consoles, controllers, cartridges, companion cubes, Rubik’s Cubes; they’ve all been cast in soap. That’s not all: Many of the soaps come in such appetizing flavors as Mountain Dew and grape soda. She even has a collection of caffeinated, pop-scented shower gels. If her work has one flaw, it’s that much of it relies on stickers — making them prettier to look at than to use. That said, it’s a pretty amazing collection. See more pictures, after the break.

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If It Don't Make Dollars Then It Don't Make Scents

New Research Could Finally Make Smell-o-Vision a Reality

by Max Eddy | 12:47 pm, June 17th

Now that the whole 3D craze seems to be ending, a new gimmick must arrive to take its place. Enter the University of California at San Diego team with their new research that could one day add scents to your media experience.

Here’s how it works, according to the UCSD article:

[The] team of graduate students used an X-Y matrix system in order to minimize the amount of circuitry that would be required to produce a compact device that could generate any odor at any time. The scent comes from an aqueous solution such as ammonia, which forms an odorous gas when heated through a thin metal wire by an electrical current. [...] using the X-Y system, 200 controllers (100 on the X-axis multiplied by 100 on the Y- axis) would selectively activate each of the 10,000 odors.

In short, we’re talking about Smell-o-Vision.

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