CYBER ERA THINKING

In 2013, Google announced the launch of a revolutionary search tool: Google Nose. This feature would allow people to search for scents. That is, instead of just reading about a flower or visualising a photo of it, you could smell it using your laptop or smartphone. Too good to be true? It certainly was: It was an April Fool’s joke after all. But almost eight years later, technologies like this are inching closer to become a reality, writes CAIO CASTRO. Actually, there is already a term for them. Ericsson’s Research...