I had heard about a new cutting edge computer program that uses a technology whereby you can send a digital electronic "signiture" of an odor or smell over the internet.
I asked several folks who are much more technologically advanced then I am, and in a layman's words this is about how it works. The program uses
your computers speaker or microphone (if so equipped) to capture a digitized electronic "signiture" of an odor. Apparently odors emit wavelengths in the higher audio spectrum, but at a much higher level that is undetected by the human ear. These can readily be picked up by a speaker or microphone via the sympathetic vibration principle.
The speaker or microphone in the computer that receives the email or brings up the forum threads that have the embedded program then causes the speakers in your computer to vibrate the same wavelength and causes an electronic digitized odor that your nose detects via of course your olfactory nerves which detect that wavelength.
When Rudy sent the pictures of the stew he made, I swore I could smell something but knew my wife was not cooking anything like that. I asked her to come into the office and see if she smelled anything unusual. I had minimized the screen so she could not see the picture. She said that she too smelled a stew of some kind. Her sense of smell is better then mine!
Using the security firewall program we have, I had it scan the computer and email to detect any unusual programs, and what do you suppose it found?? The "digital olfactory synthacator" program embedded in the emails and forum postings. Whoever embedded this program in the forum threads is very clever, but we can all enjoy it especially when Rudy shows pictures of his crockpot creations to go along with the digital electronic smell. Rudy, just don't take pictures of dumping your holding tanks! We can all do without that!
Isn't modern technology great?