Odour recorder

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Smell.Nakamoto, a professor based at the School of Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is building a range of gadgets and sensors which sniff, mix and pump out a range of hundreds of scents. Imagine the possibilities such a device could offer in future.

One of the most ambitious devices his team has built is a sophisticated "odour recorder" which can sniff an object and then reproduce its smell using a host of chemicals.

When you want to replay the scent, the device mixes the ingredients and pumps the smell of apples back at you.

"Our intention is to make all smells reproducible," Professor Nakamoto said. "So, in this case we have combined two techniques: smell detection and smell generation."

At the moment, the prototype can only reproduce certain fragrances, including apples, bananas, oranges and lemons.

Link: BBC
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