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Scent-Emitting LCD Display is Just Asking for Misuse
Posted by Adam Frucci at 5:40 AM on July 29, 2008
One would think that if a restaurant wanted to lure people inside with the smells of delicious food, they would do so by cooking delicious food. Not necessarily! In Tokyo, a company called Recruit Co. Ltd. is using scent-emitting LCD displays to entice people into eating at restaurants in the mall under Tokyo Station.
Essentially, it's a 42-inch display that spurts out different scents as different advertisements play, luring people to come grab a flyer to lead them to the restaurant in question. This seems strange to me. And while yeah, I'm sure a screen puffing out clouds of ramen-scented gas is going to make me hungry, can't you see the slippery slope this puts us on? I don't want to have hackers take over these things and make all of Tokyo Station smell like farts or a locker room. Scent terrorism is knocking at our door, and we have to be vigilant at not answering. Stay strong, Japan. [Far East Gizmos via Oh Gizmo!]
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VideoVampire
Posted 7:56 AM 29/7/08
Finally!! SMELL-O-VISIOVN!! WOHOO!!! Now if we can just get some flying cars all the promises of the future will be complete!
VideoVampire
zed0
Posted 7:41 AM 29/7/08
scent terrorism? haha
zed0
txpunk
Posted 7:35 AM 29/7/08
There's a joke in there somewhere about restaurants just spraying the scent stuff directly on their $#!77Y food.
txpunk
aaj111
Posted 7:10 AM 29/7/08
I'll take on for the living room. I'm tired of using my freshmatic.
aaj111
geschmidtt
Posted 6:43 AM 29/7/08
Reminds me of Hustler Magazines doomed "scratch and sniff" edition.
geschmidtt
geschmidtt
Posted 6:41 AM 29/7/08
Reminds me of Hustler Magazines doomed scratch and sniff experiments.
geschmidtt
Chromeo
Posted 6:25 AM 29/7/08
*sniff sniff* Hmm...what is that? Poo-poo platter perhaps?
Chromeo
Mr.DuckSauce
Posted 6:12 AM 29/7/08
@Parapraxis: Nobody would wan the smells of sex in the air and other body odors.
Mr.DuckSauce
zimzombie
Posted 6:03 AM 29/7/08
@ZackHoagie:
@graphx:
Please stop, you're crushing my dreams with your cold, hard, unfeeling "reality."
zimzombie
Parapraxis
Posted 6:01 AM 29/7/08
oh the wonders that the porn industry could create with this...
Parapraxis
graphx
Posted 5:53 AM 29/7/08
interesting... oh and i am pretty sure that you cannot hack into something like this hence the scents are physically created beforehand. although the most damage i could see as far as hacking goes is scents getting mixed up and just creating a weird mass of smells.
graphx
ZackHoagie
Posted 5:49 AM 29/7/08
@ZackHoagie: Hacking the smell, that is.
ZackHoagie
ZackHoagie
Posted 5:49 AM 29/7/08
It's a funny idea, but obviously impossible unless they actually open up the booth to repace the cartridge that holds the scent.
ZackHoagie
Platypus Man
Posted 5:47 AM 29/7/08
Man, it's just Smell-o-Vision all over again.
Though I am forced to wonder how a hacker would make it smell like farts. Replace the "ramen.sml" file and all the others with a "fart.sml" that they somehow created to smell like farts? That's 1337 -- creating your own smell hack
Platypus Man
ZackHoagie
Posted 5:46 AM 29/7/08
So, it's basically like whenever you walk by Williams Sonoma in the mall, and they are just pan frying spices scientifically proven to make you freak out in hunger and come into Williams Sonoma.
Because, otherwise, why the fuck would you walk into Williams Sonoma?
ZackHoagie
lpranal
Posted 5:45 AM 29/7/08
They already have scented LCD's on the metro card stations in NYC subways, however it only comes in one scent: urine.
lpranal
markarian
Posted 11:34 AM 29/7/08
Hmm...three emitters...
Weed, Farts, and Cat Urine
markarian
Channing
Posted 1:12 PM 29/7/08
Ugh, just the thought of this is making me hungry.
Channing
DaSmith
Posted 2:14 AM 30/7/08
I just hope they don't start spraying the stuff that comes out your mouth after a bottle of whiskey or so...
DaSmith
paqman
Posted 2:53 AM 30/7/08
@ZackHoagie: I think the poster knew this, and was just trying to be funny. However, on a more serious note, wouldn't it be possible to mix certain smells to obtain a smell similar to a fart? So potentially, a hacker COULD hack this box to smell like farts. They would just have to obtain a list or samples of the smells on the box, and then figure out which ones combined smell like a reefer!
paqman
Spkl
Posted 6:04 AM 29/7/08
why put something scented in front of a restaurant? most restaurants already give off smells of deep fried goodness and I honestly don't see any real purpose in this.
Spkl