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Visualisations of the concepts

Blazer concept:

Pillowcase concept:

Concept(s) Smell-Life-Technology

When I started to think about a concept for smell-life-technology I came up with a few ideas of which I'm going pick 2 that I'll further work out.

The first concept:

A jacket that detects when someones body temperature rises and they start to sweat, so that it automatically releases deodorant. You'll keep smelling fresh all day.

The design is located in the armpits. It's not made plastic or annoying metal materials but it's made out of cotton with the small sensors in it.

The second concept:

A pillow case with a little bottle of the scent of your own house. You can collect this scent by taking samples of objects in your house with a particular smell and mixing this into a perfume. You can connect the little bottle of scent to the pillowcase so that you can take your home with you wherever you go (e.g. holidays, staying over at someone's house etc.).

No one will ever feel homesick again!

Class 14-04-'10

The lesson was very interesting today, everyone gave a presentation about smell and technology.

Some examples:

Peter de Cupere

Artificial nature

Soap mountains

http://www.peterdecupere.com/

Sissel Tolaas

Scent Expert

http://www.sightunseen.com/sissel-tolaas-scent-expert/

Jenny Tillotson

Scentimental Space

http://www.smartsecondskin.com/main/scentimentalspace.htm

More info:

http://smelllifetechnology.wordpress.com

Pheromones used in Perfume

Pheromones are odorless chemicals that cause arousal and attraction in people. Either the olfactory epithelium (most likely) or the vomeronasal organ, which is located in the nose and conveys messages to the higher cortical regions of the brain, potentially could mediate pheromone signals. The pheromones that affect males and females are distinct from each other. There's a great deal of scientific research that suggests that pheromones really do work, and a number of perfume makers are incorporating pheromones into some of their fragrances. There are also several companies that sell synthetic pheromones on their own so you can add them to your own perfume.

Women's perfume laced with synthetic pheromones acts as a sexual magnet and increases the sexual attractiveness of women to men, San Francisco State University researchers conclude in a study appearing in the current issue of the quarterly journal Physiology and Behavior.

The study, the first of its kind to independently test a sex attractant pheromone for women, showed that of the 36 women tested, 74 percent of those wearing their regular perfume with the pheromone saw an overall increase in three or more of the following sociosexual behaviors: frequency of kissing, heavy petting and affection, sexual intercourse, sleeping next to their partner, and formal dates with men.

The study was conducted for 14 weeks in 2000. Thirty-six women were recruited on campus through psychology and human sexuality classes and asked to participate in an experiment described as testing a pheromone that would "increase romance in their lives." The criteria for participation called for women who were heterosexual, regularly menstruating, neither married nor co-habiting with a man, not currently using an oral contraceptive and in good health.

Information about Pheromones

A pheromone (from Greek φέρω phero "to bear" + hormone from Greek ὁρμή - "impetus") is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species. Pheromones are chemicals capable of acting outside the body of the secreting individual to impact the behavior of the receiving individual. There are alarm pheromones, food trail pheromones, sex pheromones, and many others that affect behavior or physiology. Their use among insects has been particularly well documented. In addition, some vertebrates and plants communicate by using pheromones.


How do pheromones work?

The chemical communication of pheromones is simple. One animal (or human) releases the pheromone and another senses it. In essence, the behavior of the sensing animal is controlled by the pheromone releaser. In mammals, pheromones are detected by an organ called vomeronasal organ (VMO) which is located somewhere in the head between the nose and mouth. Pheromones are a bit like odor molecules but they have a much different effect.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2034434_pheromones-perfume.html

http://www.aphroditewomenshealth.com/news/20020312001807_health_news.shtml

http://www.alpha-dream.com/pheromone_technology_science.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheromone