The iScent is an innovative mobile accessory and app that converts your digital notifications and smartphone ringtone from an audio alert into a spritz of fragrance. This way you'll be alerted to calls, text messages and social media notifications by a burst of scent rather than sound.
Qblinks put together the iScent app as a subversive way to interact with your smartphone. Rather than using sound, the iScent cleverly uses a vaporized fragrance to let you know when you're receiving notifications. The iScent app comes with an accompanying castle tower accessory that releases a cloud of scent the instant your smartphone receives some sort of notification. This allows mobile users to use their scent, rather than hearing, to interact with their iPhone or Android.
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The iScent Turns Your Phone Notifications into Sprits of Fragrance
Trend Themes
1. Scented Notifications - Opportunity for app developers to integrate scent technology into notification systems for a more immersive user experience
2. Multisensory Interaction - Opportunity for companies to explore ways to engage multiple senses in their products and services
3. Personalized Fragrances - Opportunity for fragrance companies to offer customized scents for individuals based on their preferences and smartphone activity
Industry Implications
1. Mobile Technology - Opportunity for mobile device manufacturers to partner with scent technology companies to create unique mobile experiences
2. Fragrance - Opportunity for fragrance companies to expand into the mobile market and create scent products for smartphones
3. App Development - Opportunity for app developers to create new scent-enabled apps that offer a new dimension to mobile engagement