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Can you envision smelly email?

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An Outlook MVP pointed out this article about a company that has developed technology to allow you to send codes in email that cause a device attached to the recipient's computer to output certain smells.

A couple of great applications of this technology came out of the discussion:

  • Smelly spam! Rather than just read about v14gr4, you can smell it... or something. And when you get that tempting offer from Nigeria, they could help sweeten the offer with the smell of money.
  • Email administrators, now's your chance to remind your users to never open attachments in a more permanent way - send 'em a stinkbomb.

[full credit due to the Outlook MVPs on this one, they came up with these great ideas and I'm just reposting them :-]

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2004
    Beat you to it ;) I posted this yesterday.

    Id hate to think what some of the contents of spam mail would smell like :s
  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2004
    Doh! I am behind on my own reading.
  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2004
    Lol

    How weird would it be in IRC to smell people coming in the room..

    Its like VR all over again :S
  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2004
    Yes, jsut waht we want, some script kiddies to mail us farts.

    There was a company called "Intellisense" that I read a few years ago had this, now theyve disappeared.

  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2004

    "Can you guess what I had for dinner?"
  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2004
    It's an interesting idea. I wonder if it'll gain traction in the market.
  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2004
    I noted that one on my blog too -- it seems like a terrible idea to me. Thankfully I can just not buy the smell generator thing and not have to suffer through this absurd idea. :)

    -Ben-