Dongle Turns iPhone Into Remote-Controlled Perfume Pumper
Imagine that you are chatting to somebody on your iPhone. Now imagine that — at the touch of a button — you can cause a fragrance to squirt from their iPhone and into their unsuspecting nostrils. Amazingly, there is a device which will make this nightmare scenario real, and — of course — it comes from Japan.
It’s called ChatPerf, and it is a combination of add-on hardware and app. The dongle plugs into the 30-pin dock connector (this is the first warning sign: if your boyfriend/girlfriend is still using a pre-Lightning iPhone, you should probably dump them already) and can be remotely triggered to release a puff of fragrance.
As it that weren’t lame enough, it gets worse: Only one perfume can be puffed out at a time, and it has to be pre-loaded. And I can’t imagine how annoying it would be to try to hold a conversation with somebody while they kept honking the horn and squirting you in the side of the chin with Old Spice.
I can think of better uses, however. I have a friend, let’s call him Jimmy (because that’s his name). He’s a booksniffer, one of those folks who refuses to read ebooks because they don’t smell like paper, ink and industrial bookbinding glue. I envision a version of the Kindle app which could eject a dose of papery perfume with every virtual page turn to keep people like Jimmy happy.
Available now, for around $65.
- Source RocketNews24
- Via Andrew Liszewski
Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via 
