Smell the Spam

[plutherus]

So, yet another company has decided that people will want to smell their email. They are marketing a new device that plugs into your computer and emits scents as directed by its software. It has 20 different base scents which can be combined to create "up to 60 different smells". From the UK's Telewest Broadband, the device will cost £250 plus £48 for replacement cartridges. (I assume that covers all 20 base aromas, and they're not £48 each).

Aside from the obvious problems, it worries me that the first use quoted in the article was for attaching scents to Spam email. Insert the obvious porn references here.

Comments

[ex-stonemir.livejournal.com]

I can just imagine the mobs of people that will be running up to shell out money for such a device. Is that a publicly traded company? I'd like to short their stock.

[31seel.livejournal.com]

Oooh yeah

Like I want to smell the smell of a woman torn apart by my mammoth cock

er, I mean AGAIN, yeah, that's right AGAIN

(I think I need sleep)

[casfic.livejournal.com]

Telewest are one of the two cable providers in the UK. They are, I believe struggling to make a profit so are obviously looking for any gimmick that will boost their flagging sales. I had the option of getting broadband through them or going down the adsl route. I got so pissed off by their obnoxious door to door salesmen flogging their product that I didn't care how good it was and went the adsl route.

I heard about this earlier in the week but dismissed it as yet another marketing ploy. I cannot imagine anyone wanting smell-o-vision email, can you?