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oPhone enables users to email odours

By THE STANDARD EXTRA

 

With current technologies, people have a variety of choices of communication. These include phone and video calls as well as text messages. Although these give a variety of ways to communicate, Harvard University scientists have come up with a new device known as the oPhone to better express feelings. It is an odour-emitting device that enables its users to send smells to one another as a text, email or tweet.

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