The only question left to ask is whether they will use bitmapped (.WIF) or compressed (NosePeg) files.
I at least hope they open source the conversion software they are using.
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#52As an (almost) 40 year old, it has recently occurred to me that younger people may not be aware that the Internet absolutely ruined April Fool's Day. There was a time not so long ago when you could pull a real-life prank on someone on April Fool's Day and actually have them fall for it because they hadn't been inundated by dozens of lame-ass corporate April Fool's Day jokes online the night before. No more!
On balance, the Internet has done far more good than bad, but IMO there's no doubt that it ruined April Fool's Day.
(As someone who lived through the 1999-2001 bubble as a developer I also remember a time when people were seriously pushing digital-smell technology as a real "coming soon" thing, to be a huge hit on the web and in games and such).
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#53This is something I've actually wanted on more than one occasion. Is there any artificial way to get a computer to "smell" things?
Noses and how we detect fragrances is actually done on an atomic level, basically by testing the reverberation of the bonds between molecules. So when two things smell the same they actually have the same bond strength, but can be completely different chemically. This is why creating artificial scents is so hit or miss.
The science and discovery of all this is really fascinating, I recommend The Secret of Scent by Turin: http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Scent-Adventures-Perfume-Scienc...
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#54Metagenomics for VOCs
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#55There will never be another April fool joke as good as Gmail.
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#56A software product with code smells that are by design. What could possibly go wrong?
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#57As an (almost) 40 year old, it has recently occurred to me that younger people may not be aware that the Internet absolutely ruined April Fool's Day. There was a time not so long ago when you could pull a real-life prank on someone on April Fool's Day and actually have them fall for it because they hadn't been inundated by dozens of lame-ass corporate April Fool's Day jokes online the night before. No more! On balanc…
I feel like timezones have also done a number on April Fools' Day, because on this side of the IDL, it begins late on March 31.
I think we need a spoiler policy for the Internet. Perhaps we should limit April Fools jokes to 14:00-15:00 UTC. This will put all the densely inhabited locations between 7:00 and 24:00 local time.
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#58The only question left to ask is whether they will use bitmapped (.WIF) or compressed (NosePeg) files.
And IE support will finally be added sometime in 2018.
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#59I heard that Google is releasing to each employee his or her full calibration score history, going back to start date, at 11:30 tomorrow.
Now that will be interesting.
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#60Digiscents raised $10M in 2001 for the "iSmell Personal Scent Synthesizer," was not April Fools joke.