so many incredible things happening in tech these days but this the coolest ive seen in a a while Osmo is working on digitizing scent — and turns out they already have a product in beta that does text to scent asked it for “smell of new books and rain” and it gave me this

This is really great to see, and congrats, Alex Wiltschko and the entire Osmo team! Being able to digitally manipulate scent is amazing! (The research work underpinning this was done by Alex and a few others in Google Brain before we decided to spin it out as a separate entity.

Scent Teleportation?! Fascinating work by Osmo. They have created a technology that captures a smell in one part of the world and diffuses it in another. The first time a scent has been digitized with no human intervention. We may one day live in a world where something you

This is the first photograph ever taken, low fidelity and laborious. This is where we were in "scent camera" before Osmo, but today, we make this labor intensive process more intelligent. Next? Invent the "codec" to make the scent sensor and display more compact and accurate. 📸

Great to see folks using Inspire. Try it at inspire.osmo.ai. Free for a little while longer, but we have a growing waitlist. Design your own fragrances, turn a story into scent.

Hi new people, I’m going to try out this Twitter/X thing for a bit after a long mostly-hiatus. I mostly post about pretty flowers and what they smell like. But also: good books, funny jokes I find that also pierce your soul and make you think about life, and computer-y AI-y

This is a special tree in Gabon, called the Okume tree. It has many practical, wellness, cosmetic, and religious usages. The tree sap is where the good scents are at — notes of strong camphor, citrus, pine. The resin is used to purify water, make cosmetics, and used in Buiti

First a digitized scent. Then, a paper in Nature shows how odorant receptors can be engineered to figure out how slightly different structures can recognize very distinct molecules. This is the start of something big. I can...smell it.

This is Dialum lopense, no local name that I got. It tastes like a Smartie! Or rather, since the fruit of this nut has likely tasted like this for tens of millions of years, Smarties tastes like Dialum lopense. #scentpost #gabon #smelladay #smelltheworld

Alex Wiltschko I think that’s actually Velvet tamarind. (Dialium cochinchinense) In the south eastern part of Nigeria, we call them Abancheleke.

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This Gabonese flower has the local name Duvuvugue. The scent is pure gourmand: powdery, chocolate, almond macaron. It's used.in a tea for stomach aches in Gabon. One of my favorites. #scentpost

Alex Wiltschko Nerium oleander.

Continuing our exploration of Gabonese floral scents with Rangoon Creeper (I think). It's a 50/50 blend of freshly dried laundry and tart fruit. #scentpost

1. Osmo digitized smell 👇

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I will continue to post pretty flowers regardless of world events. Not unique to Gabon, but found in my travels. A Guava flower, with a very clear and strong indolic (poopy) note. #scentpost