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IF YOU’VE EVER WONDERED whether what was missing from your first-person shooters was the smell of gunfire, then GameScent is here to fix that. As you play, it puffs out an odor. It’s basically a fancy essential oil diffuser. The hexagonal box holds six cartridges, five scents, plus what it calls ‘clean air’, which acts as palate cleanser between smells, of which you have explosion, gunfire, forest, racing cars, and storm. Coming soon will be grass, blood, ocean, and sport arena.
So how does it know what scent to use? Customization for every game would be quite a task, so it’s AI to the rescue, analyzing the game (via Wi-Fi) to supply the appropriate scent by tapping the audio feed. It will work on a variety of devices, including consoles, and even televisions.