Something about this doesn't smell right.
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#42The only question left to ask is whether they will use bitmapped (.WIF) or compressed (NosePeg) files.
The problem with those lossy formats is that you get those ringing artifacts that smell like benzene.
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#43This is something I've actually wanted on more than one occasion. Is there any artificial way to get a computer to "smell" things?
The Syft (1) Mass Spectrometer - the Voice 200 (2) - can sniff air and determine minute amounts of compounds present in real time, sending the output in standard form to a computer. It's the size of a big washing machine, and a lot heavier, and is portable only in vans.
One application is food and flavour detection.(3) Others are sea container contamination testing (a very real problem - 20% of so are toxic when opened), ambient air testing for pollutants, medical breath testing and so on.
(1): http://www.syft.com (2): http://www.syft.com/products (3): http://www.syft.com/solutions/food-and-flavor-analysis
(disclosure - I have a very small investment in the company)
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#44Anyone remember Leisure Suit Larry 7 with the Rub'n'Sniff cards or whatever they were called? I wonder if mine (in the original box) still smells...
CYBERSNIFF TWOTHOUSAND ™ SNIFFFFF
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#45It's interesting that this joke comes the same day that The Verge declares "smell might be the next big thing in advertising" [1].
[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/31/4166884/japanese-smelling-...
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#46If only this 20% time spent on building this crap could have been spent on keeping Reader alive.
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#47This must be real, because it's not even 11pm in UTC yet.
The YouTube one was up around midnight NZ time.
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#48okay, I fell for it. Kudos!
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're boring.
No. These are just the equivalent of "dick and fart" jokes. Something only a 5 year old would find funny.
Well, today I googled for "success", just to make sure that I got the spelling right. And then I saw the sidebar with links to this.
I found it funny. Shoot me.
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#50I rather have Google Tongue, just saying