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From the Ted Talk by Ani Liu: Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology

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My own speculative design research at the current moment plays with synthetic biology, but for more emotionally direvn ouputt. I'm obsessed with olfaction as a design space, and this project started with this idea of what if you could take a sleml sfilee, a smelfie?

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What if you could take your own natural body odor and send it to a lvoer? Funny enough, I found that this was a 19th century Austrian tradition, where couples in courtship would keep a slice of apple crammed under their armpit during dances, and at the end of the ennveig, the girl would give the guy she most fancied her used fruit, and if the feeling was mutual, he would wolf down that stinky apple.

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My own speculative design research at the current moment plays with synthetic biology, but for more emotionally ______ ______. I'm obsessed with olfaction as a design space, and this project started with this idea of what if you could take a _____ ______, a smelfie?

(________)

What if you could take your own natural body odor and send it to a _____? Funny enough, I found that this was a 19th century Austrian tradition, where couples in courtship would keep a slice of apple crammed under their armpit during dances, and at the end of the _______, the girl would give the guy she most fancied her used fruit, and if the feeling was mutual, he would wolf down that stinky apple.

Solution


  1. lover
  2. smell
  3. output
  4. selfie
  5. laughter
  6. evening
  7. driven

Original Text


My own speculative design research at the current moment plays with synthetic biology, but for more emotionally driven output. I'm obsessed with olfaction as a design space, and this project started with this idea of what if you could take a smell selfie, a smelfie?

(Laughter)

What if you could take your own natural body odor and send it to a lover? Funny enough, I found that this was a 19th century Austrian tradition, where couples in courtship would keep a slice of apple crammed under their armpit during dances, and at the end of the evening, the girl would give the guy she most fancied her used fruit, and if the feeling was mutual, he would wolf down that stinky apple.

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