CES: Are You Ready to Smell Your Video Games?

SensoryAcumen is a very serious company developing and refining a device that can recreate and dispense specific smells. The technology has the potential to be used in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and a variety of other medical treatments.

Or it could be used to let gamers literally smell burning rubber when they do a totally badass burnout in… Burnout.

The company’s Game Skunk product was first announced back in 2011, but it has resurfaced at CES 2013. In my hands-on (nose-on?) demo, a representative told me I should be able to catch the distinct scent of coffee. No such smell ever reached my nose, but that could have more to do with the scent-heavy scene at CES in Las Vegas than the actual Game Skunk product itself.

So what do you think? If game developers get on board with Game Skunk, would you be willing to smell the flowers in Flower or experience a steady scent of gunpowder in Call of Duty?

Justin is Editor of IGN Wireless. He has been reviewing mobile games since the dark days of Java flip phones. You can follow him on Twitter at @ErrorJustin and on IGN.

Source : ign[dot]com