Japanese Smell-o-vision

By Shay • Apr 13th, 2006 • Category: Japan, Technology, humor, movies, news     

Have you ever wanted a more sensory-involving movie viewing experience? Well, you’re in luck then. All you have to do is be in Tokyo and sit through the adventure film The New World.

Yes, smell-o-vision is here! This is the real deal — scent spraying, not the scratch-and-sniff thing tryed a while back. A Japanese movie theater has fragrance-spraying devices underneath the seats. The scents come from oils stored there.

The first film to get this nose-pleasing treatment is The New World starring Colin Farrell. The emitted scents are to accompany critical emotional moments. For instance, floral = love scene, peppermint and rosemary = sadness, tea tree and herbs = anger, citrus = joy. This kind of actually makes me want to see The New World.

This sounds pretty cool, or should I say, smells pretty cool. I wonder when they’ll start introducing bad smells into the line-up though. Hopefully they won’t use this smell-o-vision for the eating beans around the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles. No, that’s just gross.

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7 Responses »

  1. sumiyoshipilgrim on April 13th, 2006 at 6:51 pm:

    Cool new site design!

  2. Shay on April 13th, 2006 at 7:01 pm:

    Thanks! It’s currently ‘in-progress’ still. Hopefully I’ll get all back to stability soon. ^_^

  3. bentong on April 13th, 2006 at 10:46 pm:

    Thumbs-up for the new design! : )

  4. Miki on April 14th, 2006 at 9:17 am:

    Hey thanks for the comment in my blog too, linked you :-)

    Anyway, I kinda have opposite opinions about this “new invention”. What about a movie with lots of farting contents? haha! :-D

  5. Shay on April 14th, 2006 at 11:57 am:

    Miki,
    Thanks & I’ll link to you.
    …A movie with farting? That’s the scene from the movie “Blazing Saddles” that I mentioned at the end. If they did this for that movie people would be terrified. hehe

  6. Mister Moy on April 14th, 2006 at 5:07 pm:

    That’s beyond awesome.

  7. Nico on April 15th, 2006 at 12:27 pm:

    Dude thats awesome!!

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