Smell Your TV

Do you want to smell the cheesy pizza on your TV? Want to smell the perfume ad and not just take the celebrity spokesperson's word for how great it is? A two year experiment by UCSD engineers conducted in collaboration with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) found that an odor-generating device for your TV or cell phone is a real possibility. Read the story.

Cell Phone / Pollution Monitoring Project in North County Times

The CitiSense project led by computer scientists at the Jacobs School is in the news. Brad Fikes from the North County Times covered the CitiSense project on April 26, which is supposed to provide up-to-the-minute information on outdoor and indoor air quality, based on environmental information collected by hundreds, and eventually thousands, of sensors attached to the backpacks, purses, jackets and board shorts of San Diegans going about daily life.

Cell phones will serve as info-shuttlers that move info from the sensors to centralized computing centers, and then back out to individuals.

In the North County Times story, computer science professor Ingolf Krueger says that the system will probably first be set up to monitor pollution relevant for people with asthma.