What if you could actually smell that chicken frying, or that cake baking on your favorite TV cooking show? Or, what if you could actually smell that dead body discovered after a three week search on your favorite TV crime show?It's called Smell-O-Vision. The ability to smell the fragrances and odors associated with what we are watching on the tube or movie screen. It has been the dream of inventors for decades, but no one has ever quite perfected the technique.Now a couple of researchers at Keio University in Tokyo think they have figured out how to do it. They took regular home computer printers and replaced the ink with various scented liquids. They then forced the scents through the inkjets and came up with hints of multiple aromas, like grapefruit, lavender, cinnamon and others.

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