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...looking forward to the day when you can stop and smell the daisies without putting down your laptop, it may not be too far off. I'm at the much-hyped but financially troubled DigiScents Inc. in Oakland, California, for a click-and-sniff demonstration. When I select the cotton candy icon, a short blast from the iSmell scent synthesizer - which connects to a computer or game console - takes me back to the county fair. Some fragrances are better than others: ocean breeze tends more toward air freshener than the beaches of Bali...
Researchers from India to Massachusetts are exploring digital smell technology, add-ons that make your computer into a perfume factory. But the current atmosphere for virtual scents pretty much, well, smells. Greg Gretsch, a Silicon Valley veteran at blue-chip venture capital firm Sigma Partners, says, "Someone talks about digital scent technology and my bulls___ meter goes...
...attic above me, an animal has died. A carrion smell seeps through the ceiling. A squirrel, maybe. A raccoon? For a week, I heard something scuttling up there - as if to answer the clicking of my computer keyboard. I was amused to think the animals were weighing in with a contrary point of view. I assumed that a creature that had found its way into the attic would find its way out. Then the scuttling stopped, and in a day or two, the dead smell began. I must go up through the trap door in the ceiling in the hall...
...your mother's death from Alzheimer's [ESSAY, April 30]. My mother also died of this disease two months ago. You have eloquently expressed many of my own feelings at watching my mother slowly slip away. As I walk to work past the flowering trees, enjoying the fresh smell of spring that she loved so much, I miss her. But I had been missing her for some years now. Take a breath of spring, Mr. Rosenblatt. I am, and I think our mothers are too. FELICIA ZETLER Pittsburgh...
...Tony nominations last week--scoring 15 and 10 nods, respectively. Don't think theater producers aren't paying attention. At least half a dozen musicals based on feature films are in the works, and chances are they'll now be on a faster track to Broadway. Among them: Sweet Smell of Success, from the Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis classic about a ruthless gossip columnist; Thoroughly Modern Millie, above, a reworking of the 1967 film starring Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore; and musical versions of Summer of '42, That Thing You Do and John Waters' Hairspray...