Smell-O-Vision Cell Phone? The Underground Hates This Idea

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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:

Japanese carrier to test smell-o-vision phone kit

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.

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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 taht 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.

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