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Nose Buds
Not the dying words of a newspaper mogul | |
If I want to drown out the sounds around me, I can put on
my headphones/in my ear buds, and turn on my favourite
music. Or listen to the radio.
But there's nothing to stop the smell from that
delicious/disgusting cup of soup my boss is drinking from
driving me crazy...
I propose nose buds,
which can be inserted in the nostrils
and mask exterior smells by releasing minute quantities of
essential aromas, combining them to your favourite smells
(mown grass, pavements after rain etc). The more
expensive versions can be hooked up to your smartphone
so you can go through or share 'playlists' of smells, or listen
to 'smellyvision' casts.
Quarter Past Lemon
Quarter_20Past_20Lemon
Combine the two for stinky smell suppression and eyes-free timetelling. [calum, Jul 06 2011]
Discussion of smell cancelling herein
Anti-smell
[calum, Jul 06 2011]
iSmell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell
The unfortunately named desktop version of this. Just needs miniaturising. [TomP, Jul 09 2011]
[link]
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Halfbaked in 'Telempath' by Spider Robinson (no relation). |
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Good question. I suppose to enable sniffing at all it
would mix the scents with filtered air. |
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Sophisticated expensive models would feature 'smell
cancelling' algorithms which would detect the smell
and compensate to cancel the external aroma. |
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//How does one breathe while using this
contraption?// |
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There's a trick you can do where you breathe
through your mouth. It's sort of like talking, but
inwards as well as outwards, and without making the
noises. |
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Your nose is *much* more sensitive than your mouth. |
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Also, most deoderizers works simply by masking bad smells with a stronger sweeter smell. So you could make this work and still breath through your nose by having it squirt things up your nose as your breathe in, rather than plugging your nose. |
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Just as long as you can find something to mask the smell of stale popcorn! |
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But how would they stay in unless you jammed 'em
up there good and proper? |
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Also missing out on the chance to do a little
filtration... |
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Just saw someone plugged into her powered wheelchair by an oxygen tube - much the same technology as that, I imagine. |
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(Apologies to Robert Herrick) |
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Gather ye nose-buds while ye may,
Old odors are a-smelling,
And that sweet rosy scent today,
Tomorrow will cause yelling.
{To be continued, or maybe (s)not...} |
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I wonder if Rupert Murdoch would consider this product to be adequate protection from the malodorous fallout of "News of the World". |
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