With an expected retail price of $69.99 (USD), ScentSciences‘ ScentScape device is a compact plug-and-play USB device which can be synchronized with your content, outputting scents along the way. The compact gadget can be loaded up with a cartridge containing 20 scents like forest, ocean, flowers, a Christmas tree, or even chocolate. Using their ScentEditor software ($19.99) you can load in a video clip, and then attach scents to cue points in the video.

ScentSciences was showing off a demo unit at CES this past week, and was they played a video, a cinnamon roll came on screen, and seconds later, the booth filled with the aroma of freshly baked cinnamon. I recorded a brief video clip, and then realized that it doesn’t really work without the smells. So before you hit the play button, grab a jar of cinnamon from your pantry and wave it under your nose about 15 seconds in.

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Makes perfect sense scents, right? In addition to a stock set of 20 scents, they plan on producing custom scent cartridges for specific purposes, like if a game developer or movie studio wanted to enhance a specific movie. All I can think of is a Blu-ray edition of Polyester, in digital Odorama instead of using scratch-and-sniff cards. Delightful.

ScentScape envisions using the system to enhance games, movies, and personal content to leverage yet one more sense in addition to sight and sound. ScentScape is currently offering a software development kit (SDK), including a ScentScape player unit, a scent cartridge good for approximately 200 hours of use, demo software, and drivers for you to create your own artificially-scented applications. The SDK sells for $495 (USD), and individual consumer units will sell for around $70.

The whole concept is definitely odd, but I have hand it to the ScentSciences guys for having something that stood out from all the Android tablets, 3D TVs, and junk from China littering the aisles at CES – even if it does smell a little bit.

The grilled sausage scented iPhone soap was made by Boston area soap enthusiast Twoeggplants. The overall weight of the soap is around 3.75 ounces, in case you care how much your soap weighs.

Thankfully, it’s not only available in the grilled sausage scent. You can order a bunch of different aromas, because I don’t know who in their right mind would use a soap to smell like a fast food joint. But hey, if that’s what you’re looking for, then go right ahead! While this particular bar has already sold, Twoeggplants has got some nice Game Boy soaps as well. However, those smell like peanut butter and jelly, so they’re not exactly a good substitute for smoked sausage..

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I lol’d at Eau, You Have Cats. DuroSports went the extra mile and even concocted a scandal with the Author’s Guild, obviously a parody of the Kindle text-to-speech snafu. The Guild’s “statement” claimed that the Smell of Books was violating the “olfactory rights” of authors, so DuroSports had no choice but to pull out their aerosols for now.

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Yep, you read that right. Slime is all grown up and now available in such olefactory delights as “Elegance”, “Hot”, “Relax” and “Love”.

Now I have no idea how Slime could be elegant, and I really, really don’t want to know what Love Slime smells like. And Hot Slime might have been better named Hot Mess.

If for some reason, your curiosity is truly piqued, you can get your hands on a can of the slimy stuff over at the Japan Trend Shop for the low, low price of $19 a can.

Joining the ranks of other frivolous fragrance generators such as the one that makes your music smell and scented cell phones is this aromatic USB gadget. The AromaUSB plugs into your USB port and emits rose, lavender or jasmine fragrance to ensure that your laptop smells just like your grandmother’s living room.