May 21, 2007

Nokia Scentsory Cellphone

aromanokia_1.jpg The Nokia Scentsory Cellphone concept claims you can associate a smell and feel to your contacts, thanks to its unique paper airplane style folded design.

Scentsory would include wellness aroma therapy, as well as user customizible scent specifications. [via GearFuse]

Nokia Scentsory made headline news last June for being the winning design by Industrial Design MA students assigned by Nokia, to to create concepts for mass market mobile devicea capable of providing 4G or 5G multimedia services.

Related to cell phones, scent detectors and transmitters

-- Motorola patents the "Smellophone" The cellphone packs a scent pouch which releases olfactory goodness when talking.

-- Tech Innovation ‘Noses’ Into Phones - Jeong Kim, the head of Bell Labs, predicts technical innovations will bring cell phones that identify their owners by smell.

--Transmitting fragrance by SMS - According to researchers, XML Smell, can define in universal and standardised way the transmission of smell which allows the transmission of fragrances by email, by SMS to a mobile phone, or via a TV show.