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We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

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Re: We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

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Post by Forgeties79 »

amarant wrote: post #21
comrade1234 wrote: post #12

I predict a future where once again porn is the cutting edge with a cutting edge technology. porn + vr + smell

You're getting downvoted, likely for prudish reasons, but in all seriousness it doesn't seem unlikely that you're right. The porn industry has historically been very quick to adopt new technologies, it's easy to see how this could benefit that industry, so it's a logical enough conclusion to draw. They'll very likely be the first commercial application of this, once viable.

I wouldn’t put too much stock in fake Internet points.

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Post by robrain »

shaky-carrousel wrote: post #56
robrain wrote: post #22

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Still have it, intermittently. A sort of nameless-but-familiar "chemical" smell that comes and goes, along with any sense of taste. That is, I have bad days with no taste, just a chemical smell. Other days I have a pretty good sense of smell, generally with a good sense of taste. Intriguingly some of the really unpleasant smells never get through to me - I could probably work at a sewage works now. Worryingly I have…

This is something I'm still testing, so take it with a bucket of salt, but I've found that exposing myself to very strong samples of things that I was unable to smell made something click again and I started to smell them again. Seems like something in there needs to be retrained to odors.

That's the basic method of retraining. I've got a bunch of essential oils in tiny jars and I regularly take a 20 second sniff of each whilst thinking strongly about the smell in context. For example, when I smell the lavender oil I recall the garden at my grandma's house which obviously was full of lavender. It's definitely helping, but there are still a lot of gaps.

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Post by 0_____0 »

teuobk wrote: post #23
krackers wrote: post #7

I'd maybe make a hypothesis that a large portion of the space is "bad" smelling stuff: smoke or garbage. When people had covid-induced parosmia, it almost always seemed to be bad smelling stuff.

That was exactly my thought when reading the article and my personal experience with Covid. For a couple weeks, I perceived a persistent smell of something burning.

A smell of burning was how I suspected I had COVID the last time around. I was around some machines, I had to have someone else sniff around and let me know that nothing was actually burning.

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Post by embedding-shape »

mattnewton wrote: post #39
doodlebugging wrote: post #37

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Apple has been waiting for the opportunity to use their next moniker - iNose.

You can Apple Pay through the Apple Nose

Don't do it too much though, otherwise you're gonna need the Apple Noose, designed in collaboration with Coco Chanel.

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Post by jasonjmcghee »

foota wrote: post #63

...is this safe?

This is absolutely my question as well - curious if it's legal to do this, I'm guessing yes as it's an existing ultrasound device? But is there possibility of permanent damage?

It's objectively cool, but very curious about the safety as well.

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