Can u smell what ur computer's cookin ???

Many of you might be knowing this and many of you might not be knowing this that apart from the general computer peripherals, there is a peripheral which can actually produce smell. Yes, in fact its been quite some time since such gadgets were developed. These gadgets are based on the concept that certain limited number of scents can be combined to produce other scents. These gadgets have these basic scents in form of cartridges or plain liquid containers. While operating , different quantities of these basic scents are combined in different proportion just like it happens in RGB or any other color model. And what results is an array of scents that imitate naturally available scents. Scentcom and certain other vendors are already into manufacturing different devices that exploit this mechanism. These devices are primarily used to enhance multimedia experience by adding another sense to computing.

One would wonder then that why these devices never gained any major recognition. The primary reason for that is the limited number of scents that can be produced. Although the number that can be produced is very large but only some of them are meaningful and a lot of naturally available scents may be difficult to produce by this mechanism. But the major problem is that all of this scent reproduction to imitate the reality is done manually. Someone will have to manually make a guess at what proportions might be correct to produce the kind of scent which is desired. Here is where a major scope for improvement comes in.

Currently, one has to manually generate these scents but wonder what would happen if one could actually record a scent composition and then use the composition data to reproduce the exact scent as and when needed. Just imagine what would happen then. You and your friend have this peripheral and you two are chatting. And while chatting, you can actually smell what your friend is cooking !!! 

Now this major breakthrough would come only when a more advanced scent generation mechanism is created - One that is capable of producing almost all the possible scents. Such a mechanism would concentrate on combining the core chemical compounds instead of combining scents. And the recording device will actually have to break the scent down into respective compounds and record the same for reproduction at the receiver's side. I don't have to tell you how sophisticated this future scent machine needs to be but just imagine what a revelation it would be. It will just go on another mile to make your multimedia experience lifelike.