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The patent for a digital deodorant device that was last week awarded to Google Technology Holdings sounds like something the creators of Back to the Future would have envisaged for 2015.
Basically, you strap a fan to your body, it picks up your sweat with sensors and then sprays you with a fragrance.
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You are probably still unclean, though, since it’s not an antiperspirant. That’s okay – this device will also warn you, via trawling your social networks, if there’s any danger of nearby mates smelling you. And if anyone you know is nearby, the built-in GPS will plot you a different route with which to dodge them.
As the Economic Times reports, the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center in Belgium is also working on such technology.
Its researchers hope that your phone’s ‘electronic nose’ will be able to detect freshness of food, test air quality and even check the alcohol levels in your body. (Does it lean in and sniff your breath suspiciously, like Mum used to?)
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This bejewelled gadget had a chip on which you spray your favourite fragrance, so that all your phonecalls are sweet smelling. (It also enhanced the texture of the skin when you used the camera. Can you do that, Google deo?)
Smell you later.
Because Smelly Cat.
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Would you give digital deodorant a go? Or is your trusted roll-on enough for you?
