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To: Clappy who wrote (235)	10/5/2000 12:45:32 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104157

clappy cushion- normally i'm not in to fart jokes... but you really make me laugh. you're as funny as mubbsy when it comes to telling fart jokes. jajajajajajaja!!!! sssssssssssssssssss :^) -polvie SBD

To: Clappy who wrote (235)	10/5/2000 5:44:04 PM
From: Dealer	Respond to of 104157

Good Gosh Clappy! It has taken me all day to get the stench out of my house. If you are going to be pulling such stunts I am going to disconnect my RNWK/DIGIScents program from my computer. dealie &hearts; Click-And-Sniff Computers Due Soon As Rivals Merge In the NEW YORK story headlined ``Click-And-Sniff Computers Due Soon As Rivals Merge,'' NEW YORK (Reuters) - Welcome to the era of click and sniff. The nose may know what the computer can only guess at but virtual aromas may soon be wafting to a keyboard near you. DigiScents Inc., a highly touted U.S. start-up seeking to give computers a sense of smell, on Wednesday said it had agreed to acquire SenseIT, Israeli-based developers of a rival scent-sensing technology. Joel Bellenson, DigiScents' co-founder and chief executive said the two companies' technology and patents complement each other and bolster DigiScents' lead in bringing together recent advances in genetic research and computing technology. ``We want to restore the physical world's tangibility, flavor and nuance to computers, and eventually -- with the convergence of electronics -- to television and telephones,'' Bellenson said. Bellenson said that just as a few primary colours can be used to create thousands of shades, so too essential oils can be blended to create widely recognisable scents. ``What we are basically striving to create is the RGB of scents,'' Bellenson said, using the analogy of the Red Green Blue standard used to define television and computer monitors. DigiScents' smell-sensing technology, which consumers can expect to begin seeing in advertising, shopping, travel and video-game settings as early as this Christmas season, promises to recreate thousands of different odours. Adam Knapp, a technology researcher with Andersen Consulting in Palo Alto, Calif., who has been briefed by DigiScents on its plans, said the company stands to benefit from the rapidly falling cost of so-called electronic noses. Existing artificial noses using gas chromatography can cost many tens of thousands of dollars. They are used by fragrance makers to dissect the chemical make-up of flowers, herbs, oils and other fragrances used to create perfumes. A DigiScents spokesman said it plans to offer its iSmell scent machine to consumers by next year. Demonstration models of the device look like a pudgy high-tech flower vase. It comes with a fan and plugs in easily to the back of any standard personal computer. ISmell will retail for under $100, he said. Thanks to recent advances in computer chips that promise to drive down artificial nose prices even lower in years to come, DigiScents plans to market its products for use with scented Web sites, movies, music, advertisements, new car promotions and interactive games. Already, more than 1,600 video game developers have signed up to incorporate smell technology into their software products, Bellenson said. Building on their biotechnology expertise, DigiScents was formed to develop a system for digitizing and communicating smells over electronic networks, and thus freeing the basic human sense of smell from its classical physical moorings.