Word: smell
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...live in Paris. Are people always telling you that you smell good...
WILL CYBERSEX BE BETTER THAN REAL SEX? WILL SMELL-O-VISION REPLACE TELEVISION? WILL WE STILL DRIVE OUR CARS (OR WILL OUR CARS DRIVE US)? WHAT WILL OUR CARS LOOK LIKE? WILL I STILL BE ADDICTED TO VIDEO GAMES? WILL FRANKENFOOD FEED THE WORLD? WILL MY PC BE SMARTER THAN I AM? WILL WE PLUG CHIPS INTO OUR BRAINS? WILL ROBOTS RISE UP AND DEMAND THEIR RIGHTS? WILL EVERYTHING BE DIGITAL? WILL WE STILL TURN PAGES? WILL WE CLOSE THE BOOK ON BOOKS? WILL TINY ROBOTS BUILD DIAMONDS ONE ATOM AT A TIME? WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY? WHAT WILL REPLACE SILICON...
...watch leather-lunged TV megachef Emeril Lagasse, you've probably heard him lament the limitations of his medium: "Oooh! I can't wait till we get Smell-o-Vision so you can smell this at home...
Well, bad news, Em. Despite the old Bugs Bunny cartoon (in which a futuristic headline proclaims SMELL-O-VISION REPLACES TELEVISION!), scented TV is still unlikely to be in our parlors 20 years from now. (Emeril, alas, very likely will.) The reason is less technical than economic. Smell can theoretically be digitized, and there are researchers working to do exactly that. But Smell-o-Vision was tried years ago--with varying degrees of technical sophistication--in movie theaters. Now it's gone. Shockingly, audiences have failed to protest...
...over an execution while campaigning for the presidency. Voters got a snapshot of Bill Clinton when he interrupted his New Hampshire stumping to fly back to Little Rock, Ark., in 1992 and oversee the death of a brain-damaged prisoner convicted of murder. Some saw it as the best smell test of Clinton's ruthlessness, others as affirmation that he really wasn't a bleeding-heart liberal...