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‘Bionic Nose’ May Help People Experiencing Smell Loss, Researchers Say

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26 pointsandrewl6 comments

Sounds like a significant surgery will be required but who knows, maybe someday it will be as easy as dental implants and we'll end up with Smell-o-Vision.

https://archive.is/yqL8Y

Would be better if they ran a tube from your nose to an earpiece with a modulated voice describing the smell of everything you passed like an accessibility reader.

  YOU ARE CURRENTLY ON A SMELL
  PRESS CMD+OPT+SPACEBAR TO SNIFF
  PRESS CMD+SHIFT+OPT+UP+ARROW TO WRINKLE NOSE IN DISGUST

I guess that could work if there was a way to make it describe important smells (e.g gas leaks, or rotten food), and also have a way to optionally describe the surroundings as I imagine it would be very annoying to be constantly hearing about things you can just see (e.g a freshly brewed cup of coffee you are currently drinking).

Makes me wonder if you could encode smell to straight audio though. Then every area could have a sort of hum.

Getting RimWorld vibes..!

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