Wouldn’t it be cool if you could finally smell your favorite cooking show? Or did you ever wonder how your favorite show smells? It sounds pretty weird, but Samsung took the challenge and came up with the Smell-O-Vision concept. This is the first time that this tech looks so real that this might actually happen.

Samsung asked researchers at UCSD to partner up with them, to create a small device which can generate lots of different smells. This technology works by using a 100×100 matrix of thin metal wires that heats any one of 10,000 smell-forming liquid solutions, allowing for more then 10,000 different smells. The researchers tested two different smells, and found that the smells were perceptible up to 30cm away.

While there are truly times when the olfactory feedback would be awesome (Pirates of the Carribean comes directly in mind) and times when it would be horrible (the Saw movies or the Exorcist), I kind of get the feeling advertisers would get the most advantage out of it. Sure we’d know the smells are synthetic—on several ascending levels—but damn if it isn’t already difficult enough to resist those tasty burger ads.

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