Can you "make up" smell(s) like you can colours?

[jsmoke]

I think there are fundamental smells?

So from the 3 primary colours i think i am right in saying that you can make any colour possible. I was thinking of a device we could plug into our PCs and which would produce a smell corresponding to the code you fed it, therefore if you wanted to smell some say food from another country you would just get the code and your machine would make the smell.

 

[Skully]

I can smell bacon right now.

 

[McGray]

You should patent this idea right now.

 

[Scuzi]

If such a device were available I'm sure the porn industry would have employed it by now.


Mmmmm, fresh snizz.

 

[OhEsEcks]

Smellovision. I watch a lot of ********s. The last thing I want is smellovision.

 

[arknor]

yea mix dog poop with english mustard and you get the electric burning smell.

battery acid + next doors cat smells like chicken chow mein

 

[RomanNose]

 

[antijoke]

If such a device were available I'm sure the porn industry would have employed it by now.


Mmmmm, fresh snizz.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

 

[Zogger]

Unfortunately I think smells are rather more complicated than colours. Unless we are all raised as synaesthesiacs

but I can smell your #FF42D1 from here

 

[McGray]

I think COD will smell like burnt hair.

 

[Mason-]

Difference is colour is light. Whereas smells are gases.

Also can you really make any colour? What if there are more colours but you our eyes are unable to see them

 

[Zogger]

but I can smell your #FF42D1 from here

Following on from this post, this really was a random hex code I came up with, but it is bizarrely incredibly similar to the colour in Skully's sig in the second post...

http://www.colorhexa.com/ff42d1
http://www.colorhexa.com/ef3fd0
16 out on the r, 3 on the g and 1 on the b

 

[jsmoke]

I just searched smellovision (post above^^) and found this,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_scent_technology

Seems like they are already working on it.

In 2005, Japanese researchers announced that they are working on a 3D television with touch and smell that would be commercially available on the market by the year 2020. [7]

Not really the same as my idea but similar.

 

[RomanNose]

You guys can't see this colour.

 

[Skeeter]

You would need a supply of atoms of every element, and then a way to combine those in a machine to the exact buildup of each molecule you would need to create the smell.

Ignoring difficulties of storing the elemental atoms, I doubt any small machine could be made to do this easily.

Isn't it in essence nuclear fusion?

 

[Energize]

You can't make any colour from 3 primary ones, the gamut is limited.

 

[Cosimo]

If such a device were available I'm sure the porn industry would have employed it by now.


Mmmmm, fresh snizz.

It would have to be in 3D.

 

[PermaBanned]

You can, but it's just chemistry. The 'banana' smell would be Isoamyl acetate, orange would be Octyl acetate. We have three different types of receptors for light. We have tens of thousands for detecting particulates.

 

[Kosmiche]

You can get light systems for your pc like ambx that light up to match the ambience of the game you're playing. Its only a matter of time before we have smellbx.

 

[DJMK4]

I guess you would be able to do this, however, you would need something that would "mix" various smells up to make another smells based on code input, and something to disperse the smell.

I couldn't imagine smells just being congered up and dispersed by a simple line of text on a screen alone without no third party add on/smell printer