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Smell-o-vision to make food porn even more enticing

It’s hard enough not to drool over delicious looking food being made on your TV screen, but in the near future you’ll be able to smell it as well.

And the best part of this seemingly to-good-to-be-true gadget is that it is not an April Fools’ joke.

The special smell-o-vision screen works by shooting tiny airstreams from the screen’s four corners which are controlled by fans thus allowing the gadget to put specific smells on specific areas of the display, according to New Scientist.

So, if the screen displays a delicious apple pie in the bottom right corner of the screen, only that corner will smell like apple pie.

The diet-killing streams of delicious smelling air are fed by vaporizing gel pellets while the airstreams themselves are blown parallel to the screen’s surface by fans so small that it seems as if the smell is coming from the screen itself.

So far the researchers have only been able to make systems that create a single smell but they plan on inventing printer-like cartridges so that the smell can be easily changed.

The so called “smelling screen” was invented by Haruka Matusukura at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan and was shown off at the IEEE Virtual Reality conference in Orlando, Florida, last week.