{"id":7238,"date":"2014-03-18T10:32:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7238"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:32:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:32:21","slug":"smell-phones-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/smell-phones-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Smell Phones Are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Holiday albums could be less forgettable when pictures of a Mediterranean meal carry the scent of olives; a selfie on the beach contains a trace of salt spray or a rainy London scene conveys the distinctive aroma of freshly wet concrete.<\/p>\n<p>If the digital age has increased the volume of communication, it may not have improved the quality. Reversing that trend is the goal of a new generation of sensory engineers who are going beyond sight and sound to produce devices that use our untapped faculties. Perhaps the most exciting breakthroughs right now are arriving in the form of smell-centered communication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our motto is &#8216;aroma tells a thousand pictures'&#8221;, says Dr. David Edwards, biomedical engineer at Harvard and founder of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lelaboratoire.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Le Laboratoire<\/a>, known for producing radical sensory devices such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lelaboratoire.org\/en\/products.php\" target=\"_blank\">calorie-free chocolate spray.<\/a>\u00a0Every human has thousands of distinct smell sensors, Edwards explains, a resource he taps with his newest invention the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vaporcommunication.com\/#he-t\" target=\"_blank\">oPhone<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/ZjmBGx\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday albums could be less forgettable when pictures of a Mediterranean meal carry the scent of olives; a selfie on the beach contains a trace of salt spray or a rainy London scene conveys the distinctive aroma of freshly wet concrete. If the digital age has increased the volume of communication, it may not have improved the quality.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/smell-phones-are-coming\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7239,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}