you watched programming

But the contraption is not nearly as cool as it sounds. It

looks like you have to download an app and press a button

that causes the device to emit whatever scent is in the Chat

Perf connected to your friend’s phone. So you are not

actually texting smells to your friends. If you wanted to

send them a different smell each time, you would basically

have to send them different Chat Perf attachments, which

seems to defeat the purpose since the company says it would

charge $62.25 for each attachment.

It sounds like the company is more or less promoting the

invention as a marketing tool for now. The company told

RocketNews24 that concert venues could hand out Chat Perfs

filled with the performer’s favorite scent, or even the

smell of their own sweat, so that devoted fans could get a

whiff of them wherever they were in the audience. Smelling

sweaty music stars? Not exactly the most fun smell to share.

Popular Science points out that to make “smellepresence”

real, you would basically have to create an “electronic nose

” that could interpret smells the way human noses do. Then

the person receiving the scent would have to have a device on

his or her phone that could recognize the more than 10,000

odor molecules that humans can smell — and it is unlikely

that a device like that would be portable. Chat Perf seems

like it has a long way to go.

This zany idea reminds me of the time when Samsung and

researchers at the University of California-San Diego

announced that they were working on a Smell-O-Vision

prototype, which would allow televisions to emit smells as

you watched programming.

MORE: Like the Smell of New Apple Gadgets? There’s a

Fragrance for That

Let’s say you’re Italian. Your mother made “sunday gravy,

” a rich meat sauce cooked for hours and hours on the back

burner. There is sausage in there, and meatballs, and

tomatoes, and lots of garlic. Now you are a respected chef.

What are you going to do to pay tribute?

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The recommendations

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If today Haryana Opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD)
party is going all the way to 'support' Khemka to launch an
attack on the Congress, then it was Congress which had come
out to 'save' the officer from INLD wrath in 2004 when OP
Chautala was the chief minister.
Khemka, during his stint as director of secondary education
department in September 2004, had put his foot down and
refused to entertain the transfers of teachers recommended by
the chief minister's office.
The recommendations were made by the CMO despite a blanket
ban on teachers' transfers.
Khemka had not only faced transfer within seven days of his
appointment but also had to go without an official car and at
that time Congress, taking Khemka's side, had blasted
Chautala for "harassing an honest officer."
"Khemka did not care for any recommendation for transfer, not
even from the CMO," said an INLD leader.
Unwilling to be identified, a Congress leader said, "Khemka
had provided us a tool to fight the Chautalas with. We were
looking for an issue and there he was raising hell."
Congress had again supported Khemka the same year when he had
opposed the acquisition of Nathupur panchayat land worth
crores of rupees in Gurgaon district by Chautala government
for a private builder for a paltry sum.
Meanwhile, Chautala on Wednesday during a press conference in
Jalandhar praised Khemka but when asked why did he transfer
the officer eight times during his tenure as CM from 1999 to
2004, Chautala said no officer was shifted with mala fide
intention during his tenure.

Washington would be there to clean up the mess

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The far bigger problem of the last decade has been the
symbolic message Washington sent to the financial markets. On
the one hand, as the Born episode illustrates, the roaring
'90s ushered in a bipartisan belief that Wall Street could do
no wrong--that it was offensive to even consider substituting
the knowledge of small-minded bureaucrats for the towering
wisdom of traders and their abstruse risk models. At the same
time, the government signaled that when, by some freak
alignment of the stars, the traders erred and their models
broke down, Washington would be there to clean up the mess.
How else to interpret the Long-Term Capital bailout
scrupulously engineered by the New York Fed with the blessing
of Greenspan and the Treasury Department?
So it's curious, if not surprising, that Washington has
responded to the current crisis by doubling down on this same
message. The plan Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced
this week isn't a complete disaster. There are a handful of
worthy details--most notably the creation of a federal
Mortgage Origination Commission to develop minimum licensing
standards for mortgage lenders--that Congress should enact.
It's the broad thrust of Paulson's proposal that's utterly
mystifying: The Fed would receive enhanced authority to
intervene in the trading activities of investment banks--it
would formally gain the power to give Wall Street banks the
full Bear Stearns treatment. But that authority would only
relate to activities that posed "systemic risk"--which is to
say, the risk of a market meltdown. For activities that
didn't clear that threshold, the Paulson plan would actually
reduce federal oversight in some respects--for example, by
giving stock exchanges a larger role in regulating themselves
and expediting approval of new financial products.