Engineers have already figured out how to deliver voice, text messages, television, music, and mobile Internet to your cell phone. Now, they’re working on smell. Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) announced on Monday that it would soon begin testing on a system to deliver fragrances through cell phones.
Mobile Fragrance Communication, as NTT calls it, will in essence be a more mobile version of the ordinary Fragrance Communication system NTT developed back in 2005. Since no cell phone natively supports “smell,” NTT has created a portable fragrance accessory to accompany phones, which cooks up different odors by blending “base fragrances.”
