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Smart Mobs: Transmitting fragrance by SMS

The researchers said they quickly realised that smells could be propagated over networks and the Web. And so they have created XML Smell, which they claim can define in universal and standardised way the transmission of smell which allows the transmission of fragrances by email, by SMS to a mobile phone, or via a TV show.

I call for caution. The first people who start transmitting this stuff are going to be very large, sweaty sysadmins.