Imagine if your ambient scenting machine had multiple possible scents, could learn to associate a scent with an event by observing how you interact with information sources, and based on its learning it would emit particular scents at relevant times during the day. Industrial designer David Sweeney (Royal College of Art) has designed something like this, which he’s calling “Quale.” Emitters that are best described as a Seuss-like cross between a chemistry beaker and a loudspeaker would be placed around the room like speakers in a kind of “surround smell” fashion. It’s unclear to me how the learning takes place to let the device know what scents to emit and when, but the fact that Sissel Tolaas designed the scents makes me think this device is worth a closer look.
Read more at Yanko Design or David Sweeney’s web site
Nice article. I suppose a system like this could also be used ti disinfect the bad air in a structure as well.