Camera captures the smell

With a new camera, your favorite fragrances will be captured and stored forever, from the smell of food, floral scents, freshly cut grass scents or the smell of the sea.

Designer Amy Radcliffe of the University of London in London has created a camera that captures the smell of the subject, rather than photographing it, and then reproduces it chemistry.

Close up camera - (photo: Central Saint Martins)

According to Gizmag, Radcliff performed a unique camera prototype experiment, named Madeleine , that captures the smell of fresh strawberries and other complex airborne odors over the course of 24 hours.

Madeleine operates under the so-called 'smell-in-the-gap' mechanism, a technique developed in the perfumery industry to analyze and reproduce odor compounds around various objects.

When the source of the odor is placed under the glass cone of the device, the pump starts to extract the odor through the plastic tube.

When sucked into the main chambers of Madeleine, the smell passes through a layer of turpentine, which absorbs particles to record information about the molecule.

Depending on the complexity or strength of the newly acquired smell, the flavor can be renewed for a few minutes or longer.

Since odor has the effect of stimulating memory, a device can 'capture' the smell of an event in the past that is judged to produce the true phenomenon.