Smelly-phones from NTT

Not a belated April Fool's joke, apparently. Japanese NTT Communications is testing a Mobile Fragrance Communication service (Kaori Tsushin Mobile) service that lets mobile phone customers create and share fragrances. The service, which was launched for home use in 2005, uses a device that's been pre-loaded with a number of basic fragrances. Mobile phone users can then download "Fragrance Playlists" or fragrance recipes that are sent to the device by infrared to create individual fragrances when multimedia files are being played on the mobile phone. [Source: BWCS.com]