Your smartphone can do
practically anything now and days. With one small device, you have all the
knowledge in the world. It can talk back to you, show you beautiful things,
teach you stuff, send messages for you, update you on emails, and even more.
What can’t it do? Well, until recently, it couldn’t give you the best of
smells, but that will all change with a recent app development.
An Accessory of Course
You may be asking yourself how a
smartphone could possibly release different smells without the technology being
already built in to the device. The truth is, it is actually an accessory. It
is a white gadget that goes into the headphone socket and uses an app to
determine when the smell is released. It blends in with the phone, more or
less, making it almost like it is part of the phone instead of an add-on
gadget. With this extra feature, you can smell anytime you get a notification
on your phone. The gadget was developed in Japan and is being distributed there
currently. It seems the Japanese are always ahead of the curve when it comes to
innovative technology.
The Different Smells
According to NY Daily News, there are a ton of different smells anywhere from the smell of roses to the smell of cinnamon rolls. You are encouraged to try them all. You can smell corn soup, apples, jasmine, coconut, mint, and much, much more. Though you have to purchase each of the fragrance cartridges individually for $5 each and the machine doesn’t allow you to hold multiple smells at once, you still get bursts of fragrance to tell you that you have a new message. Each of the cartridges hold 100 puffs of smell.
Cost of New Technology
One might think this kind of
technology is going to be really expensive because a lot of technology has to
be stored in a small device. the truth is, the device only costs about $35 on
Amazon. It isn’t available to Americans yet, but the product (called Scentee)
will likely be released in the nation very soon. Many small products developed
in Japan, such as this one, don’t make it to the US, so it must be doing really
well in Japan.
What This Means For Text Marketing
If you are texting a customer news
from your business, there is always the chance they have silenced their phone
or don’t hear the quick vibration indicating a message. With new technology
like this, assuming it expands and becomes an everyday product for smartphone
consumers, you don’t have to worry about that anymore. Even if they don’t hear
the notification, they are bound to smell the scent of news. It means you will
get your message to the customer right away, and it may even smell like
bananas, popsicles, or roses. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
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