Will we ever be able to smell and taste on the internet?

[Metalface Mark]

As topic, do we think there ever will be a time when we can taste and smell on the internet, for example, you visit a restaurant's website and you can smell or taste the food that's on the menu?

Will camera's ever be equipped with sensors to allow such things, is it even possible, is it currently in development?

Sometimes I think such things cant be possible, but then I never envisaged a time when you could download a book or music, so I suppose it must be possible!

This sprung into my head after purchasing some fresh Habanero chillies, I really find the taste of them offputting and I would never have ordered them had I actually tasted them first.

 

[Spikey Willow]

It's a nice idea, but imagine shock sites...

You'd be able to smell the of B.O. on geek forums...

 

[Maccy]

Or smell-o-vision on TV?!

 

[GravyMonster]

I'd be more interested in a device which allows you to slap/choke someone over the internet.

 

[Bumhug]

Think of the fun you could have sending people links

Try this amazing flavour ice cream I found.....oops my mistake that was horse manure

 

[Archy]

I'd be more interested in a device which allows you to slap/choke someone over the internet.

 

[Cosimo]

People won’t use smileys, they’ll be farting in the middle of threads.

 

[Metalface Mark]

Actually, after thinking about it, i googled it and theres a place in California developing the "iSmell".

http://www.howstuffworks.com/internet-odor1.htm

"DigiScents has indexed thousands of smells based on their chemical structure and their place on the scent spectrum.
Each scent is then coded and digitized into a small file.
The digital file is embedded in Web content or e-mail.
A user requests or triggers the file by clicking a mouse or opening an e-mail.
A small amount of the aroma is emitted by the device in the direct vicinity of the user."

 

[Martini1991]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7smQyZBNnk

 

[bhavv]

Actually, after thinking about it, i googled it and theres a place in California developing the "iSmell".

http://www.howstuffworks.com/internet-odor1.htm

"DigiScents has indexed thousands of smells based on their chemical structure and their place on the scent spectrum.
Each scent is then coded and digitized into a small file.
The digital file is embedded in Web content or e-mail.
A user requests or triggers the file by clicking a mouse or opening an e-mail.
A small amount of the aroma is emitted by the device in the direct vicinity of the user."

Not really the whole virtual smell + taste thing, more like a USB odor dispenser.

 

[Morlock]

...more like a USB odor dispenser.

Not much more advanced than the 'scratch n sniff' technology of the '70s.

 

[Glaucus]

It's only electrical signals in the brain. I see no reason why full virtual reality isn't possible, sometime in the future.

 

[kwerk]

one day we will be the internet. our minds uploaded into a intergalactic quantum-entangled network of consciousness. yeaaah.

 

[Morte]

I'd be more interested in a device which allows you to slap/choke someone over the internet.

You kinky devil

 

[B@Th*nG]

lick your mouse and i bet it tastes EXACTLY of what you've been looking at on the internet!!!



B@

 

[Haze]

smell and taste porn?? hummm i think not

 

[~>Dg<~]

porn smell tbh

 

[LizardKing]

Think of the fun you could have sending people links

Try this amazing flavour ice cream I found.....oops my mistake that was horse manure

Would give rick rolling a whole new depth!

 

[Cosimo]

porn smell tbh

I'd prefer the smell of roses.

 

[GravyMonster]

porn smell tbh

Open a can of tuna.