Why can’t we record scent

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We have invented devices to record what we can see, and devices to record what we can hear.

Why haven’t we invented something to record what we can smell?

How would this work if we did?

\[When I am travelling I really wish I could record the way things smell, because smell is so strongly evocative of memories and sensations.\]

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Anonymous 0 Comments

They actually tried to do this in the 50s with **[Smell-O-Vision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision)**, though it was a lot more gimmicky and less sciencey than one might’ve hoped. Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t a hit.

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