google-patent-deodoriserGoogle has certainly gone through many growing pains to be where it is today – and this time around, their latest patent has nothing to do with search or computers, but rather, it will be a piece of wearable technology that intends to do away with bad smell. This experiment with nasal-based reality augmentation will see this particular device being worn on clothes so that it can help improve the odors surrounding – or even emerge from the wearer.

Described to be an “odor removing device” and a “fragrance emission device”, it is touted to be able to sniff out offending smells in the first place, before getting to work by de- or re-odorizing them. Not only that, it is capable of informing you if your mates happen to be in the vicinity as it gleans such information from social media posts, so that you can avoid bumping into them if you do not smell your very best – handy if you happen to have just finished a workout at the gym.

The patent’s definition reads as such, “A portable device comprising: a sensor operable to detect a physical activity of a user; an odor prediction portion in communication with the sensor and configured to generate an indication of predicted user odor based on detected physical activity of the user; a communication portion operable to access one or more social networks via a communication network, wherein the device is capable of communicating with a social network of contacts; and a route suggesting portion operable to provide a suggested route away from a set of defined persons within the social network of contacts responsive to the indication of the predicted user odor.”

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