Kashmir innovator develops 'aroma transmitting device'

A young innovator from Kashmir has claimed to have developed a gadget that can electronically transfer aroma to any part of the world, describing the "gen-next gadget" as his New Year's gift to the state.
Idrees-ul-Haq Beigh, 26, an engineer from Srinagar's downtown area, calls it an "Aroma Transfer Device (ATD)", which is based on a spectral-analysis technique and requires coding and decoding at the two ends. The technique can also be used to detect bio-chemical weapons usage.
"In layman's language, if we want to send a fragrance of anything from anywhere, we can send it electronically to our dear ones, to get a response from them on how it smells... like if you have bought a new perfume in Kashmir and you want to make your friend who is in the US smell it, you can send its aroma to him electronically," Beigh told PTI.

He said the device works by individually determining the bonding structure of three main elements in an aroma -- Hydrogen, Oxygen and Carbon -- and then transmitting it as an electronic signal.
Elaborating on the technique employed, Beigh said, "ATD comprises aroma-detecting sensors mounted on a vertical limb, which is used to get aroma through a series of spectral analyses, of which the combination of Hydrogen, Oxygen and Carbon bonding structure is individually determined, analysed, memorised and then transmitted into an electronic signal."
"These signals are entirely in coded forms (zeros and ones) and thus can be send from one place to another. On the other hand the Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen present in the air is trapped by disintegrating the air into its components and the similar ratio of the memorised and transmitted structure is made with the help of a device present at the other end and thus the smell is transmitted easily," Beigh said.