June 18, 2014

Now available on the Web? Smells



Harvard team develops oPhone, trades scents between New York, Paris

Who hasn’t been transported back to childhood by the sweet aroma of baking cookies, or to a favorite forest by the earthy smell of leaf litter, or to a summer beach by the tang of salt air?

Harvard Professor David Edwards and a former student, Rachel Field, want to harness the evocative power of smell, not just to bring us back, but to bring us closer.