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      Kaori Web: Odorophonics Comes To A PC Near You 
	   
       
      
        
      
    Kaori Web has created something just like Ray Bradbury's odorophonics in Japan.
  
  
Kaori web lets you smell what you see on the screen (at least in theory). Trial units will be in place soon.
In his famous story collection The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury coined the term odorophonics to describe this kind of machine; click the link to read more about DARPA's research into this topic.
 
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