We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

Still have it, intermittently. A sort of nameless-but-familiar "chemical" smell that comes and goes, along with any sense of taste. That is, I have bad days with no taste, just a chemical smell. Other days I have a pretty good sense of smell, generally with a good sense of taste.

Intriguingly some of the really unpleasant smells never get through to me - I could probably work at a sewage works now. Worryingly I have next to no ability to smell burning, though I do now get the smell of natural gas (or the additive used to make it smell).

That was exactly my thought when reading the article and my personal experience with Covid. For a couple weeks, I perceived a persistent smell of something burning.

Does everything come down to waves or to bits?

Well, if it’s waves, perhaps principles of consonance and dissonance might apply. Robert Hooke thought so…

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You're getting downvoted, likely for prudish reasons, but in all seriousness it doesn't seem unlikely that you're right.

The porn industry has historically been very quick to adopt new technologies, it's easy to see how this could benefit that industry, so it's a logical enough conclusion to draw. They'll very likely be the first commercial application of this, once viable.

Of course the HN creeps and perverts immediately fantasize about porn in a thread on some fascinating human biology research.

After we have Smell-O-Vision[0] we should work on the next big step for the internet:

<[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision

I shudder to think what capability the execute bit would grant.

I'm thinking it could be that we are very attuned to smelling bad smells because it's for safety.

No-one wants to hear about your weird fantasies, creep.