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US processed meat concern Oscar Mayer has brought the world a dongle that imparts the scent of bacon to the iPhone. The promotional gewgaw has a companion app that includes an alarm clock that controls the porcine dongle. At the time you wish to rise from your slumbers, the app sets the dongle to work so your first sensory …

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  1. frank ly

    " ... that is a beard and an a mouth ..."

    Thank you for saying that.

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    1. Mike Bell
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      Re: " ... that is a beard and an a mouth ..."

      Yup, it needed saying. Otherwise some poor unsuspecting soul might have inadvertently viewed the image side-on and wondered what the hell those teeth are doing there.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    This can't be right!

    Surely the typical iPhone hipster is a slinky-hipped, health-obsessed vegetarian who would be repulsed by the smell of bacon? After all, you just have to ask "what would Steve have done?". I'm frankly appalled that there's an iOS app for that device - banish it to Google Play for the unhealthy-looking Fandroids immediately!

    PS: I want one!

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    1. JDX Gold badge
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      Re: This can't be right!

      Lame. Most iPhone users are middle-managers.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Facepalm

        Re: This can't be right!

        Leave your sense of humour at home this morning?

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          Anonymous Coward

          Re: This can't be right!

          "Leave your sense of humour at home this morning?"

          Where was the humour?

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          1. JDX Gold badge
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            Re: This can't be right!

            It wasn't funny. Observational humour are supposed to be based on fact, not just making stuff up.

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  3. Roo

    I trust this huge leap forward in phone peripherals is fully patented...

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Call quality affected...

    Apparently, after using this, call quality can be really bad, lots of crackling.

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    1. Evil Auditor Silver badge
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      Re: Call quality affected...

      Apparently, after using this, call quality can really worsen, even more crackling.

      Here, fixed that for you.

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  5. JDX Gold badge

    Sad

    Is how you would feel when you woke up to the smell of bacon, and found there wasn't any.

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    1. Ted Treen
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      Re: Sad

      No: hungry is how I would feel.

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    2. TRT Silver badge
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      Re: Sad

      *sigh* back to the daily rind.

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  6. Velv

    No need for one of these to connect to my iPhone.

    My butler already bring the coffee and bacon at the arranged time.

    Don't all iDevice owners have butlers?

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  7. Tanuki
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    I live in fear of the widespread deployment of olfactorily-enabled computing/communications devices.

    t's bad enough being in a closed space and so forced to overhear other peoples' phone-calls or seeing them silently mouthing their SMS/Twitbook messages as they're reading them without the overpowering and lingering aroma of... who knows what? being inflicted on you as well.

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    1. TRT Silver badge
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      The smell of Faecebook?

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  8. Longrod_von_Hugendong
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    Thank Evolution...

    Thank we don't have a mouth on our palm, I think if we did the Human race would have died out many many years ago...

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Thank Evolution...

      "Thank we don't have a mouth on our palm, I think if we did the Human race would have died out many many years ago..."

      Shame many have not. Leave those who have evolved to carry on.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Thank Evolution...

      "Thank we don't have a mouth on our palm, I think if we did the Human race would have died out many many years ago..."

      Especially with those teeth - ouch!

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  9. Anonymous Coward
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    Making bacon

    "Yes, that is a beard and an a mouth embedded in a chap's hand, "

    When I were a lad, we were told that too much 'introspection' would give you hairy palms. Maybe the phone company are referring to their phone's crystal clear display and super fast internet.

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    1. TRT Silver badge
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      Re: Making bacon

      Shake hands and kiss at the same time. Awwww!

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  10. Mark 85

    Marketing Opportunity?

    For those with an Apocalypse Now tendency...Where's one with the napalm smell...?

    Or for vegans.. Where's the kale smell?

    For those so inclined, I guess...maybe tuna, or sweat, or ozone?

    Those who are cubicle convicts can soon look forward to being awash in their neighbor's preferences.

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    1. Roo
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      Re: Marketing Opportunity?

      "For those so inclined, I guess...maybe tuna, or sweat, or ozone?"

      I can't believe anyone hasn't already mentioned the possibility of the ultimate fart app. Ideally it should be trivial to remotely exploit.

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  11. Captain DaFt

    Now we have proof!

    Y'golonac Lives!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y'golonac

    All hail the Defiler!

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