THE FIVE SENSES

DIGITAL SCENT TECHNOLOGY

CONTENTS• Introduction

• Founders

• Process

• Prototypes– Smell-o-vision– iSmell– ScentDome– P@D Aroma Generator

• Applications– Smart Second Skin– Nokias’ Scent Phone– Scenttv.tv

• Application Areas

• Facilities

• Disadvantages

• Conclusion

THE POWER OF SCENT…• makes content extremely immersive

and compelling

• creates mood, such as foreshadowing or ambiance

• can unconsciously trigger entire memories, complete with deep-rooted associated emotions establishes place and season

• helps develop characters

• gives a heightened sense of reality

• average human is able to recognize approximately 10,000 different odors

• is a technology to sense, transmit and receive scent-enabled digital media

• works by combining olfactometers and electronic nose

• An olfactometer is an instrument used to detect and measure ambient odor dilution

• An electronic nose is a device intended to detect odors or flavors.

INTRODUCTION

FOUNDERS• Dexster Smith and Joel Lloyd Bellenson, experts in

bioinformatics and genomics, started from the following idea:

“If we can find the essence of a biological smell and build a profile, we can digitalize and broadcast it.”

PROCESS• digitizes the scent

– by digitizing the scent along two parameters the chemical make and its place in scent spectrum

• then digitized into a small file– which can be transmitted to the internet

attached to the enhanced web content.

• then transmitted – with the help of digital synthesizer

connected to the computer the transmitter scent can be reproduce from the palette of primary odors following the guidelines of the digital file

Digitize

Scent

Scent

Into file

transmission

PROTOTYPES

• Smell – o –vision

• Aroma Jet

• Ismell

• ScentDome

• E-nose

• XML Smell

• P@D Aroma Generator

• Adobe released its Net sniffer, Odorshop in 2007

SMELL-O-VISION

• was a system that released odor during the projection of a film 

• so that the viewer could "smell" what was happening in the movie

• created by Hans Laube 

• made its only appearance in the 1960 film Scent of Mystery

• The process injected 30 odors into a movie theater's seats

ISMELL• The iSmell or iSmell Personal Scent

Synthesizer was a computer peripheral device developed by DigiScents in 2001.

• connected to a personal computer via USB or serial port 

• Was designed to emit a smell when a user visited a web site or opened an email.

• contained a cartridge with 128 "primary odors" – which could be mixed to replicate natural and man-

made odors.

• DigiScents had indexed thousands of common odors, which could be coded, digitized, and embedded into web pages or email.

WORKING OF SCENTDOME• Trisenx, a company in Savannah,

Georgia, has released a device called a Scent Dome that will allow users to smell products sold online, or create and email their own scents

• Price: US$369 Availability: TriSenx Device: Tangible user interfaces Basic specs: 5.5 inches tall, utilizes 20 base aromas to mix-and-match scents 

P@D AROMA GENERATOR• comes with three different

cartridges for different smells, namely– Cinnamon, – Woody Herb – Fruit

• This intelligent aroma diffuser spreads the scent for 30 seconds and stops for two and half minutes and it continues this pattern for four hours. 

• P@D Aroma Generator can be got online for around $69

SMART SECOND SKIN

• Developed by Jenny Tillotson, a researcher and a designer at the University of the Arts in London, England

• the world's first interactive scent outfit

• generates scent according to wearer’s mood

• ‘smart’ because it senses the wearer's mood

• 'second skin' because it interacts with the wearer and their environment.

• designs alleviate mental and physical health problems through the delivery of odorant benefit chemicals in controlled ways responding to personal needs

NOKIA SCENTPHONE

• winner of 2005 Nokia innovation competition

• Scentsory is a mobile communication device that works with the senses of smell, sight, hearing and touch, giving users the ability to experience remote communication on multi-sensory levels

• Scentsory is able to detect, transmit and emit smells

• It can also radiate colors, lighting, and temperature from the caller’s environment

• Nanotechnology plays a key role in the development of this new device

SCENTTV.TV• Scented Web Broadcast Portal 

• delivers an enhanced “multi-sensory” digital experience by providing users the ability to smell content from the world-wide web

• Scenttv.tv Community of Users will be able to literally smell the scent enabled content of movies, games, music videos, educational curriculum, favorite television programs, aroma therapy sessions, their own personalized scented web pages with videos and commercial ads

• a multi-media portal only reachable from the US for the moment

APPLICATION AREAS• Marketing

• E-commerce

• Entertainment

• Education

• Medical

• Gaming

• Personal and Home Products

MARKETING AND E- COMMERCE

ENTERTAINMENT AND GAMING

MEDICAL

PERSONAL AND HOME PRODUCTS

• programmed from the car while driving home so that your newly created fragrance will fill the air upon your arrival.

• In addition, a mother’s scent can be programmed into an aroma generating device placed near a crib to help comfort a baby while sleeping

FACILITIES• designed in such a way that it will give

protection against that smell.

• scent cartridges contain mostly natural materials

• possibility that user has allergy from any smell so for this problem the ismell provides locking facility

DISADVANTAGES• Price

• Chemical problem: - difficult task to put any digital reactions into a computer and execute over a computer.

• Genetics: - there might be possibility that any user has problem with smell.

CONCLUSION Smells trigger very powerful and deep-seated

emotional responses, and this additional element to the internet will enhance users' online experience by adding that crucial third dimension

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, a scent is worth a thousand pictures.”