“Olly and Molly”, by Foundry at Mind Digital

Smell is the most under-used sense of the human body. Foundry, a small research team at Mint Digital, created a small device to stimulate the entire spectrum of our human powers during the day. Olly is a small robot that diffuses a fragrance of your choice when you receive emails, re-tweets, etc. As a modular system, Olly will have its own website from which one can customize the way the smelly robot responds to web stimuli.

And then, to complete the experience with taste, Foundry released Molly, a little brother of Olly, that graduates from scent to candy, dispensing one’s chosen sweets upon receipt of virtual notifications.


Both robots operate in a similar way: the user can customize various modules to assign different fragrances to different alerts.

Here is the video.