Transhuman Forms · 2025
Olfactory Sensing
Recording and reproducing smell
Archive · 2025. Project notes reflect the work at the time of documentation.
- Year
- 2025
- Track
- Transhuman Forms
- Built by
- Alistair Pernigo (MIT Media Lab)
- Status
- Shipped / shown
Cover: a frame from the talk recording, Human Augmentation Summit 2025, cropped and color-corrected.
Overview
How do you decode human smell? Olfactory Sensing aims at the next generation of smell technology: record a smell, then reproduce it for anyone, anywhere. Sight and sound have been captured and reproduced for more than a century — smell, a sense closely tied to memory and emotion, has not.
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