<div dir="ltr">I even wrote <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/ismell-a-turkey/">a column about iSmell</a>. Boy, I'm really trotting down Memory Lane today.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:44 PM Mark Brownstein via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I remember DigiScents -- it worked like a dot matrix printer, using a <br>
library of scents and mixing them to produce other scents. It actually <br>
seemed interesting to have scent cues that sent you messages - the smell <br>
of roses could tell you that your print job is done, violets (or <br>
something) could tell you you've got mail, etc.<br>
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It was too bizarre for market acceptance (or didn't work as conceived). <br>
My father, who was blind, may have found a good use for it when he was <br>
using his computer.<br>
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WAY BACK in the '60s, someone talked about 'smellovision.'<br>
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On 11/15/2019 1:26 AM, Tom Geller via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
> On 15 Nov 2019, at 00:49, Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Quite fascinating -- scent in VR.<br>
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>> <a href="https://twitter.com/amy_vecchione/status/1195125071628529664" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/amy_vecchione/status/1195125071628529664</a><br>
> Anyone remember DigiScents around 2000? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell</a> . I knew their marketing manager (who was married to the CEO, I think) pretty well.<br>
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> Nostalgia: I was hanging out with them when I met then-Mayor Jerry Brown in Oakland at some rah-rah tech event. Someone near me asked him to become the mayor of the nearby Vallejo next. "No way, man," he said. "That's heavy lifting."<br>
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