Smell-O-Vision Cell Phone? The Underground Hates This Idea
By Tom Chandler on May 6, 2008 in Underground Entertainment
Apparently, it’s not enough that your buddy calls your cell phone so you can hear his Hardy reel screaming under the weight of a steelhead; now you’ll get the fresh scent of fish along with it:
Would you like to come home to the rich smell of a beef
dinner roasting? Or be woken up with the whiff of freshly cut grass?
Both could soon be possible, provided the upcoming trial of a
odour-outputting mobile phone rig doesn’t get up Japanese consumers’
noses.
Imagine an all-day, underfed trip in a drift boat; instead of waiting for your taunting call to him, your cubicle-bound friend simply sends the smell of frying bacon over your cell phone.
Damn. Well played.
At the Underground, we frankly don’t like this idea much, but we’ll allow for the fact that I’m a crank, and not always receptive to new ideas.
[EXCITING DEEP THOUGHT UPDATE: Imagine the ability to include scents alongside my fishing reports (the clean fragrance of pine needles, the intoxication of a wildflowers… the eye-blurring wet Wonderdog scent, the frankly rank stench of wader interiors after a week of hot weather fishing… the three-week old slaw dog that rolled under the car seat… Never mind)]
How does this rank among the Undergrounders? Pro? Con? It stinks?
See you at the smell-o-vision, Tom Chandler.
Greg | May 6, 2008 | Reply
So a phone call from smellslikefish would… smell like fish?
Tom Chandler | May 6, 2008 | Reply
Instead of distinctive ring tones, each caller would announce his arrival with a distinct scent.
Mine, of course, would be a meadow full of wildflowers. I’m clean smelling.
kbarton10 | May 6, 2008 | Reply
It’s the end of Brownlining, adding that all important third dimension will kill the sport..
“Honey, where are you…nevermind, OMFG - what is that?”
Greg | May 6, 2008 | Reply
Tom,
Of course, you’re the very epitome of the Irish Spring guy. “And manly too.”
Tom Chandler | May 6, 2008 | Reply
Kbarton: You might be overthinking this; consider the potential for fly fishing bloggers to include odors alongside their fishing reports.
That ability alone would guarantee you solitude on the brownlines of your choice…
Greg: You are correct.
Smellslikefish | May 6, 2008 | Reply
Imagine calling in sick to work in the morning. Your boss would want you to turn on the smell-o-vision to make sure it’s not a hangover.
I’ll pass.
Oh wait, I’m self-employed.
Martin | May 7, 2008 | Reply
I think this is going a bit far myself. Before long nobody will leave the house , they will have access to all the sites, sounds, smells of the real world without ever leaving bed.