In a survey of 7000 16-to-30-year-olds, a not-entirely-surprising 53 per cent chose tech over their sense of smell. Most of us here at Giz picked tech, since we’d obviously be massively unemployed without it. When we put the question to you on Twitter, most of you agreed with us, though our readers might not be the most impartial audience.
Here are a few of the more thoughtful responses:
@richard_dorian: “I gave up my hearing for tech a long time ago so what the hey, might as well give up my sense of smell too.”
@ryan_garcia: “smell,because eventually they will have an app for smell.”
@RaghuKannan: “smell! Most things smell like shit anyways.”
@efycho: “Tech, because someone who smells good just turns me on. Tech? My iPod doesn’t turn me on, unless I have porn on it.”
What do the rest of you think? [NY Mag]
Cody
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 12:08 PMNo smell = no taste?
Daniel T
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 7:52 PMI have no sense of Smell and hence an impaired sense of taste but I can still taste most things
TK
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 12:11 PMPretty disturbing results, and a good indication of our addiction and dependency on tech. Maybe these folks are forgetting how much of an impact smell has on your sense of taste and flavour.
Travis
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 2:44 PMI understand what you mean between smell = taste. But for sake of a hypothetical situation they are asking would you give up SMELL not SMELL & by extension taste only SMELL.
Smell is great and amazing and unmatched how it can affect our memory recall but to some tech gives them more. I know I would rather lose a arm then a leg. I don’t think there is anything disturbing about this.
Nathan
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 12:20 PMDo people realise that giving up smell stops just short of giving up your sense of taste as well?
Most of what you taste can be attributed to your sense of smell.
Tezz
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 1:51 PMSmell is way too important of a sense to give up, hell all senses are way to important to give up. Id rather be able to hear, smell, taste, see, and feel than have games.
Terence D
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 1:57 PMI’d give up taste for tech.
Chaps
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 2:46 PMI was born with no sense of smell, it ain’t no picnic.. You are right, taste is all but non-existent. Here are some other points
Fish is just fish. Flake tastes the same as barra
Forget any herbs or garlic or anything like that..
Obsess about your own BO…
never know th smell of baked bread, cut grass, rain on the way, the scent of a woman..
no gadget is worth what I go through…
Drew
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 3:31 PMI’m curious as to what counts as tech in the first place? Is it just electronic tech or all tech in general? I mean, you wouldn’t be able to drive a modern car as they all have computers in them. Nor a modern TV, come to think of it, just about all household appliances these days. And would this include any products that tech was used to produce? If so, you wouldn’t be able to use cash let alone a credit card or cheque.
Lets face it, as long as we exist, we are now dependant on tech to survive.
Jack
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 3:38 PMI’ve already lost most of my smell, after all of the medication it’s been owned with.
Got rid of all of my sinus problems, but I can only smell in a proximity of around 5cm.
So, I’d happily give it up.
bazuden
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 3:46 PMYeah, I’m pretty sure I have the worst sense of smell in the animal kingdom, so I’m happy to give up something I don’t even have!
Andy
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 9:08 PMTech