Would you like to come home to the rich smell of a beef dinner roasting? Or be woken up with the whiff of freshly cut grass? Both could soon be possible, provided the upcoming trial of a odour-outputting mobile phone rig doesn’t get up Japanese consumers' noses.
NTT_smell_pic1 NTT's Mobile Fragrance Communication kit: …
Come on, this is from the country that sells (or used to) used panties in vending machines.
Yes, whatever kinky scent your westernized brain can image, and dozens more that you wouldn't ever think of, will be sold in the little sex shops that abound in certain sections of Tokyo...
I'd prefer the Wasp T-10 Speechtool's thermotones, although I have heard that you can't use them in either Central London or Hull, due to interference from the London Aquarium and the Deep causing the anti-shark action to go haywire.
The inclusion of every known integer on the keypad is nice though.
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Japanese carrier to test smell-o-vision phone kit
Would you like to come home to the rich smell of a beef dinner roasting? Or be woken up with the whiff of freshly cut grass? Both could soon be possible, provided the upcoming trial of a odour-outputting mobile phone rig doesn’t get up Japanese consumers' noses. NTT_smell_pic1 NTT's Mobile Fragrance Communication kit: …
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Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Phewwy! #
Remind me not to use that kit to phone any pig farmers or to call the effluent engineer at the local water company!
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
Louis Cowan
Could be interesting #
Prank calls would be hilarious - I'd be constantly ring up my mates and farting down the phone at them!
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
Ian Bonham
Hackers #
So are these completly hack proof, or could the BOFH be busy filling my house with the smell of fresh poo as I drive home?
Bill, because he stinks too
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
Nicholas Ettel
wow #
Seriously, the Japanese never cease to amaze me with how... just... out there they really are.
PH because she needs her own sent.
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
Francis Boyle
The Japanese crucified Santa Claus #
and it seems that they haven't quite got the hang of April fool's day either.
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Phone sex anyone? #
I wonder if this will make phone sex more popular?
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
Anonymous Coward
to be honest... #
i think the idea stinks
coat donned, taxi called.
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
Pyros
A thought #
Inquiring BOfHs want to know--when will the strommburg (or whatever that year-old canned fish) scent be avaliable?
Mine's the rainslicker...
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:57 GMT
Ryan
"watch cartoons with appropriate smells" #
South Park Season 1 Episode 10 - "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo"
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:57 GMT
Anonymous Coward
What a load of crap..... #
This kit will never work unless the Jap chaps invent the smell equivalent of echo-cancellation.
Without that, imagine if the other end 'turn up the volume' and stick an even heavier 'dose' right back at you?
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:57 GMT
Anonymous Coward
not imaginative enough #
Come on, this is from the country that sells (or used to) used panties in vending machines.
Yes, whatever kinky scent your westernized brain can image, and dozens more that you wouldn't ever think of, will be sold in the little sex shops that abound in certain sections of Tokyo...
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 20:36 GMT
Fraser
Nathan Barley #
I'd prefer the Wasp T-10 Speechtool's thermotones, although I have heard that you can't use them in either Central London or Hull, due to interference from the London Aquarium and the Deep causing the anti-shark action to go haywire.
The inclusion of every known integer on the keypad is nice though.
Posted Wednesday 9th April 2008 09:06 GMT
Anonymous Coward
1 week Late.... #
April Fools was last week guys, Who has ever heard such rubbish....
Posted Wednesday 9th April 2008 14:49 GMT
Dr.Frito
Eww... #
Umm, since tons o' people carry their phones in their back pockets....don't they already have smell'o'vision?
One of the reasons I only use flip phones....don't need the mike filling up w/ my beanie dinner waffs.....then putting my mouth there...
Posted Thursday 10th April 2008 05:39 GMT
skeptical i
John Waters must be thrilled ... #
... to see Odorama(R) taken to the next level. (See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082926/ for details.)
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