Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Harvard professor to begin selling oPhone, a scent-messaging tool

<p>If the aroma of sweet, buttery coffee is something you want to share with friends even friends who live miles away you soon may have the option of doing so through a device called the "oPhone."</p><p>Harvard researcher David Edwards and a team of his students are developing a technology that, once completed, will allow scents to be passed along through a text message, phone call or social media application via a Bluetooth-capable smartphone, tablet or computer.'oChips [will be] priced low enough to encourage the same frequency of use as M&amp;Ms for an M&amp;M lover.'</p><p>- Harvard researcher David Edwards</p><p>"The oPhone is in development. It will be available for use notably in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from July and commercially from later this year," Edwards told FoxNews.com via email from France.</p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/03/03/harvard-professor-to-begin-selling-ophone-scent-messaging-tool/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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