When you shop online, wouldn’t you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or the subtle fragrance of flowers before surrendering your credit card number? Surely more companies will want to aromatize their Web presence when they realize there’s a device that can produce genuinely pleasing, authentic fragrances. Charles Platt Read Quote
The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber. Charles Platt Read Quote
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the ‘hacker threat’ so that they can win approval by cracking down on it. Charles Platt Read Quote
Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it. Charles Platt Read Quote
In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank. Charles Platt Read Quote
