Madeleine is the Camera that has been recently invented to capture and store smell. We are used to Camera that can capture and store important moments in life. The Digital Camera is now very much part of all the mobile phones and we have got so much used to taking pictures with our mobile phones.
The capturing of moments through still photography and video has been widely used by most people across the globe. How about capturing those smells in life and storing the same so that we can feel the smell at a later stage in life? What an idea and what an incredible invention.
In order to use the Madeleine Camera a person needs to place the funnel over the object or environment they wish to capture, then a pump sucks the air across an odour trap made of Tenax - a porous polymer resin, which absorbs the volatile particles that make up the smell. Users can take their exposed odour traps to the local lab in the same way they would take a 35mm film to be processed - the product being not photos, but delicate vials of the scent, along with a bronze disk o the specific formula bringing a precious, ritualistic quality to the process.
Watch the demonstration in this simple video:
Having got used to recording images and video clippings, we will now start capturing and recording favourite smell. This gadget is the result of the invention by designer Amy Radcliffe at Central Saint Martins, U.K. She is a student at the University of Arts, London. With this invention we will now start moving from Photography to Scentography. We are not far away from the day when the Scentography will get integrated into the Mobile Devices as the Mobile Device already has so many features and gadgets rolled into one.
Madeleine is designed to capture the molecular information of a smell and store the same for retrieval at a later stage whenever needed. This new Madeleine Camera will bring a new revolution in the world of Technology.
Well done Amy Radcliffe and wish you many more such successful inventions.
T.P.Anand
Dubai, U.A.E.
2nd July 2013
Interesting innovation!
ReplyDeletelets See how it does - demand and popularity wise