[HN Gopher] 'Bionic Nose' May Help People Experiencing Smell Los...
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       'Bionic Nose' May Help People Experiencing Smell Loss, Researchers
       Say
        
       Author : andrewl
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-01-29 05:39 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.washingtonpost.com)
        
       | DarknessFalls wrote:
       | Would be better if they ran a tube from your nose to an earpiece
       | with a modulated voice describing the smell of everything you
       | passed like an accessibility reader.
        
         | warning26 wrote:
         | YOU ARE CURRENTLY ON A SMELL       PRESS CMD+OPT+SPACEBAR TO
         | SNIFF       PRESS CMD+SHIFT+OPT+UP+ARROW TO WRINKLE NOSE IN
         | DISGUST
        
         | accoil wrote:
         | I guess that could work if there was a way to make it describe
         | important smells (e.g gas leaks, or rotten food), and also have
         | a way to optionally describe the surroundings as I imagine it
         | would be very annoying to be constantly hearing about things
         | you can just see (e.g a freshly brewed cup of coffee you are
         | currently drinking).
         | 
         | Makes me wonder if you could encode smell to straight audio
         | though. Then every area could have a sort of hum.
        
       | flemhans wrote:
       | Getting RimWorld vibes..!
        
       | Mountain_Skies wrote:
       | Sounds like a significant surgery will be required but who knows,
       | maybe someday it will be as easy as dental implants and we'll end
       | up with Smell-o-Vision.
        
       | arbitrage wrote:
       | https://archive.is/yqL8Y
        
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