On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 18:15:40 +0100 (BST) Prof Bruce Royan wrote:
> NEW SHAREWARE PLUG-IN
> SCRAN, the multimedia Resource base for the study and celebration of
human
> history and material culture in Scotland (www.scran.ac.uk) already
> provides access to thousands of multimedia objects including images,
> movies, sound clips and Quicktime Virtual Reality. In a bold new move,
> SCRAN is launching today a revolutionary type of Multimedia object,
> MIMEtype RTSS. Real Time Scratch and Sniff allows, for the first time
as
> far as we can ascertain, end-user access to the olfactory aspects of
> material culture. Objects already captured for the resource base
include
> the aromas of Malt Whisky, Haggis, Cloutie Dumpling and Highland Cattle,
> and more will follow as and when the digitisation process allows.
Access
> to these objects requires the installation of the RTSS plug-in. The
SCRAN
> team have released this plugin into the public domain. It is currently
> available for Netscape v3 and better, and a Microsoft Explorer version
is
> currently undergoing Beta testing. Instructions for downloading and
> installation are at:
> http://www.scran.ac.uk/RTSS/
>
Congratulations on this "Stirling effort".
Previous such products have been implemented in costly hardware.
Your public domain offering is particulary welcome.
Unfortunately all such add-ons seem to be rather primitive and to the
sceptical seem to produce only two distinguishable outputs:
1. the smell of "un poisson d'avril"
2. the smell of a cod
Good luck anyway.
Peter.
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