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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Humans have become experts in manipulating energy. It helps us get work done. Sound and light are energy transformations.
Smell is chemical detection. We are able to detect different chemicals and that can be used as smell recorders but to recreate them post recording is currently beyond us right now.
I feel that electrical nerve/sensory simulation might be closer then actual smell reproduction.
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