A researcher at Huelva University in Spain claims to have created a version of XML that can transmit fragrances.

The scientist developed a dual pass printing system, using two polymers which degrade by light and by touch, so that the smell is perceptible only when a document is read.

To propagate smell over the Web, the boffin created XML Smell, which would define in a standardised way the transmission of smell to allow the transmission of fragrances by email, by SMS to a mobile phone, or via a TV show.

Currently, the researchers are designing a device which will sit next to your TV, radio, phone or PC, and which contains a “smell palette”. The components in the palette are realised according to instructions contained in the XML Smell language.

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