Thanks to the smell sensing hardware ophone, Harvard scientists have succeeded in smelling

Do you believe mobile phones can also send smells? Scientists from Harvard have successfully used the new communications hardware OPhone to send information about the scent of champagne and passion fruit macarons from Paris to New York.

The principle of the device's transmission of odors is simple. First, the user uses a customized camera app--osnap to take pictures and select several related scent labels from about 3000 odors. Then, when a scent message onote, the receiver of the message can click on a link and then jump to the original image or the selected scent information. After connecting the hardware device OPhone Duo, the scent can be sent out through two separate tubes.

At present, the OPhone hardware on the Indiegogo on the public-raised price of 149 U.S. dollars, users can also be in New York, Paris or Cambridge and other place to apply. However, even without oPhone, users can still use Osnap to add scent tags to images, such as "Lady Gaga" "My Room" and so on. The following figure is Osnap.

One of OPhone's designers was Harvard professor David Edwards. Initially, he and the 23-Year-old student Rachel Field Design This new communication system, they want to make social network Instagram, Facebook or send to friends of food pictures, also can be filled with three-dimensional taste, more vivid.

The interior of the OPhone Duo consists of a number of small recycled parts of plastic, similar to one of the nerve cells. Each "cell" has four holes, three of which are wrapped in dry, smelling material. When the osnap emits a scent signal, the oPhone shifts to specific nerve cell pores and releases the specified scent.