Posts Tagged Humor
The smells of NY
Think you know what NY smells like in summer? Where do you suppose you are if what you’re smelling is laundry, beer, juniper and hair wax? If you can’t get to NY yourself to figure it out, try using this smell map of NY from a recent NY Times.
Author and illustrator Jason Logan tackles the regions of Manhattan the way a biologist might document life in various micro climates. One smell at a time.
Link: New York Times
Add comment September 4, 2009
Odors of the world mapped by Smell Club
A Japanese web site dubbed the “Smell Club” has undertaken the mission of mapping the aromas of the world. Launched last month, the site has a couple hundred devoted “smellists” who are cataloging the scents they encounter. For now, you can click on map locations tagged with things like “the bad breath of cats,” “the toasty odor of cow dung,” or “freshly aired futons.” If you read Japanese, that is. It’s unclear how they’ll account for the fact that aromas change, or if they’ll make any attempt to verify the scents.
View the site at www.nioibu.com (Japanese language only) or read more at the UK Guardian
Add comment January 13, 2009
The state of Smell-o-vision
1 comment October 27, 2008
Australian man demonstrates limits of scent masking
In case you are in doubt about the need for odor neutralizers, and feeling tempted to simply cover up bad smells with good ones, take heed. An Australian man recently killed his girlfriend, then tried using rose-scented candles and an aerosol spray to cover up the smell. I think he’s in jail now.
Read more in the Herald Sun
Add comment September 15, 2008
Aromatic alarm clock wakes you with bacon
The scent of bacon always reminds me of lazy Sundays, when Dad would be home watching wrestling on TV, and mom would be making pancakes and bacon. Several decades later, thanks to some freaky genius designers, I can wake up to the scent of bacon every morning, and nobody has to cook it for me.
Yep, it’s the Wake n’ Bacon Alarm Clock. Set the alarm before you go to bed, insert some frozen bacon, and say good night. Ten minutes before you want to get up the little halogen lamps inside will heat up and start doing their job. If everything goes according to plan, you will start dreaming about eating bacon, and by the time your eyes open, your dream will come true. Now, there’s an invention I can get behind.
Link: Matty Sallin
Add comment August 8, 2008
Feeling low? Try on a bacon-scented tuxedo!
To go with those pork-scented postage stamps, we now have bacon-scented clothing. A tuxedo, to be exact. It’s from those funny folks over at Archie McPhee, who finally came up with something worthy of mention in New York magazine. Sadly, it’s actually an April Fools’ hoax.
Links: NewYork Mag, Archie McPhee
Add comment June 19, 2008
Ambient scenting companies advertising via YouTube
Air Aroma, a scent marketing company based in Melbourne, is doing talk-free, animated television ads.
Kyoto company Sante Claire has got an infomercial-style ad about its scent diffusers on YouTube. See and hear ultrasonic technology explained, and experience the beauty of their “Wedding” model, introduced at this year’s Tokyo International Gift Show.
And for your entertainment, here’s an American infomercial from the Home Shopping Network about a “programmable hush fragrance aroma pulse system kit.” Say that five times fast!
Add comment April 12, 2008
