Installing the nose driver?

I recently got an invitation to send something to a mail art show. The card had a place to put perfume. Responses were to be scanned onto the net. How will the perfume get scanned?

When I was a kid, I remember thinking "someday there might be smellevision."

Then, in the early 1980s the Seattle Times had an article about a device someone invented to create smells in the room by electronic command. It had a disk that heated up different chemicals based on some sort of code it received. Apple smell, locker room smell.

Soon after that, I found the smell making machine in a second hand store. Didn't buy it. The replacement disks are probably long not available.

Maybe someone is working on a nose protocol for the internet. So far, the internet does not offer much for the nose.

Maybe it is too primordial. We just look past it to our computer screens.