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Smells & tastes
In the case of smell, devices do exist and an encoding system has already been proposed: “Most devices available today are capable of emitting only 255 smells. These devices are “8-bit smell” devices. New devices are beginning to emerge that support 16-bit smell, capable of outputting 65,535 smells. We settled on using 32-bit encoding scheme, since we expect that-much like colour monitors-the maximum bit depth will hit a ceiling at 32-bits.” In addition, some researchers are working on pc-controlled systems that will produce smells: So far, as far as we know, no devices have been created to simulate taste but somebody, somewhere is probably working on it. Presumably this device would activate nerve endings in the taste buds and may have to wait for someone willing to experiment upon their own tongue.
As i see this it is not that hard to use a computer whith the disability of smell and therefore taste. Maybe in a future where this can be used as propaganda means and maybe there will be some sort of evolution in those aspects, Now a days this is not an essential impariment to worry about. For this maim reason there is nothing invented for this disabilites yet.
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Although much important work is being done in applying technology to the stimulation of the senses of taste and touch, this paper will focus solely on the sense of smell, solely for the selfish reason that it happens to be the area of expertise of the author and contributors. (It may be interesting to the reader that the genesis of this project was the author's frustration at not smelling the "new car smell" at a popular car manufacturer's web site.)
