aromatherapy
Design
I Don’t Think The World is Ready For Aromatherapy Earphones
6:40AM Sean Fallon | Hey, I love pleasing scents as much the next person, but I don’t think people are quite ready for an MP3 player that pumps odours through your earbuds. Nonetheless, a group of designers has come up with that very idea and dubbed it “Sweet Honey.” I highly doubt that you will see something like this on store shelves anytime soon, but there are plenty of crazy stupid aromatherapy gadgets out there already—so you never know. [Yanko] More »
Gadgets
LTK-2000 Therapy Station Tries to Soothe Your Senses All At Once
10:01PM Gizmodo US Edition | Sure, there’re plenty of gadgets to soothe your troubled soul with smells, lights and sounds— but why buy a bunch of these, when the LTK2000 does it all in one? Once the Therapy Station has calmed your ears with 24 relaxing sound options, a pop-up ring of bright LEDs tries to banish those SAD blues. Aromatherapy scents will waft around you from its built-in heater, while an anion generator cleans up the air. Strangely its designers missed tackling all five senses by omitting a massager and chocolate dispenser, but hey ho. Available for around US$395 in Korea at first, we guess it’ll be over here soon enough. [Technabob] More »
Gadgets
Aroma Waker Early Morning Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Technology
11:22PM Gizmodo US Edition | Aroma Waker is a not-so-cunningly-named alarm clock that wakes you by emitting aromatherapy scents at a preset time. Its actually got two heated scent pots, so you can have a second dose of smells later in the day— perhaps to remind you it’s lunchtime, to feed the cat, or a “warm welcome from a hard day’s work” as designers Abiogenesis suggest. So, fragrant Giz readers, how would you like your olfactory glands to be aroused this morning? More »
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