Let’s face it, while the Internet has dramatically improved our lives in almost every way (you can tell I’m a fan), it is still only available to us through limited senses: our eyes (through seeing the screen), our ears (through hearing sounds), and our touch (in the sense of controlling what to do and where to go).

Yet our noses, our enhanced touch and our taste buds are still not able to perceive the web.

My idea for today is a device that changes this. A device that is able to turn computerized code into something sensible to our noses and taste buds.

Every smell has what could be thought of as a genetic code, in other words a set with a bunch of finite properties that is able to describe mathematically what something smells or tastes like. That’s the first bit, the ability mathematically to record this ’sense code’.

The second bit is the ability to take this code and recreate it in sensible form, in other words to bring that code of properties back to life.

And it’s not limited to the web, imagine watching television or going to the movies where you can actually smell and taste what your eyes are seeing. Or playing a game with all the sense elements included.

For the web this could be used in multiple ways. For instance, imagine going to a perfume store online and being able to smell every single product in the catalog. Or going to an online deli and being able to taste all their offerings for the day without actually having to  get off your chair.  That would really bring this experience to life.