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# ChatPerf
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/chatperf/
- Published: 2013-05-16T11:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:01:20.000Z
- Description: Send friends an custom smell direct to their phones with this new device from Japanese developers.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Technology, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21, #author-change-2025-05-28

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This week we've already seen a couple of olfactory based projects. From the sensory-melding [Olfactive Studio](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/05/olfactive-studio?ref=protein.xyz) to the sensory enhancing [Eidos](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/05/eidos?ref=protein.xyz) device.  
  
Japanese company [ChatPerf](http://chatperf.com/?ref=protein.xyz) has created a USB-sized iPhone add-on that enables users to add smells to their message sending arsenal. Called the Scentee, the add-on attaches to the iPhone’s 30-pin connector, and once the ‘puff’ button is pressed, the scent held in the tank is released.   
There are numerous applications for the Scentee. You could, for example, send a message to a stressed out friend containing a soothing scent (ChatPerf itself sees particular potential in the gaming and film worlds). And with a software development kit being released to third party developers as well, all manner of uses for the Scentee are possible.  
  
Whether Scentee catches on remains to be seen, but with the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds becoming continually blurred, it’s not surprising that smell has been brought into the equation.