you can smell the snowfall on 42nd street in new york. that was the fictional odorifics machine, but human beings really do love tinkering with the olfactory bandwidth in real life. this is the eye smell machine, that can fit on a stack of books by your bed. it was supposed to let you smell things on the internet, the way you can smell perfume ads in a magazine. and for about 15 minutes in 1999, the ismell was going to launch the new revolution. they got a spot in the tech fail hall of fame. then there was the aeromet jet company. they made this cute prototype for smelling your video game. you could wear it with your neck with the business end pointing to your nose. i think it s called the pin oak, but it might be the pin oake. when we wrote to the company yesterday, the e-mail bounced. in 2004, we got the scent dome. it came in red, blue, and lime green. it was supposed to let you e-mail a scent to someone. well, that went away.