programmable odour generator

80 The proposition that television "brings the world into your living room" has gathered strength with the latest addition to the colour vision- stereo sound-three dimensional TV line of development in "tube tech- nology": the programme-controlled odour generator, which is expected to herald a new era of real life to tele- vision, since broadcasters will no doubt avail themselves of the oppor- tunity to delight us viewers with the appropriate smell to go with a certain action in the relevant film or docu- mentary. programmable odour generator 12 CD4711 DATA 86511-2 0 Odorant Elektronik GmbH of Col- ogne, Germany have recently in- troduced their Type CD4711 4-bit programmable, bio-electronics based odour generator, suitable for digitally controlled TV sets. Jour- nalists were regaled on a number of sample odours from the new chip at a rushed press conference, during which a spokesman of Odorant claimed that the Type CD4711 is capable of producing 1 of 15 odours as selected by the...