People in the media are always
trying to sniff out the hottest new apps coming around the corner.
"App" is of course short for application, which is just another word
for computer program.
Like "cloud" is another
word for data storage servers someplace other than your own computer. It
supposedly being safer to store sensitive data at a place far away where a
hacker can get to it all at once and not have to plumb every individual desktop.
Anyhow, a new app is attracting the
tech world and coming up smelling like roses. Literally. It's an app to give
your smartphone smell.
App is inaccurate. It's actually a
peripheral. It plugs into the headphone jack of your smartphone or device. The
article I read on it called it a "smell dongle." Which for some
reason sounds like an olfactory bulb or a nasal polyp.
Olfactory bulb is a pretty good
description since it's indeed a golf ball-sized doohickey. It sells for $35 and
contains a scent cartridge containing enough liquid for 100 sprays. Not what
they usually mean when they say a plug-in for your computer. More like a Glade
Plug-in for your wall.
It is not, unfortunately, a means
to smell things in your online books or stories. Not like an added dimension of
perception in your media consumption. It just spritzes out a warning that
you've got a call, text, or email.
No more interrupting meetings when
your phone blares an annoying ringtone of a song no one listens to anymore. Or
vibrates loudly on a tabletop like an adult toy gone berserk. The Scentee smell
dongle will silently waft out a warning.
Choose your alarm scent well. One
person's kim-chee is another person's testosterone-taking weightlifter's ripe
armpit.
"What stinks?"
"Sorry, I've got male."
America, ya gotta love it.
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