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People stopping to smell the roses can now take that sweet floral fragrance home with them or even send it to a faraway grandmother thanks to a new gadget in Japan that records and replicates the world's odours. The new device, developed by scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, analyzes smells through 15 sensors, records the odour's recipe in digital format and then reproduces the scent by mixing 96 chemicals and vapourizing the result. Creator Takamichi Nakamoto says the technology will have applications in food and fragrance industries where companies want to replicate odours. But it could also be...

A few months ago Philips Polymer Vision, a company backed by Philips promised a rollable, paper-like display in two years - and took then only a few months to have a prototype ready. Philips Polymer Vision is showing its Concept Readius during an international exhibition in Berlin, Germany. The Philips Concept Readius is a prototype of a connected consumer device for business professionals. The device implements a pocket-sized e-reader withouth sacrificing readability, mobility, performance, or weight. The Readius is the world’s first prototype of a functional electronic-document reader that can unroll its display to a scale larger than the device...

LONDON — The market for printable electronics is forecast to generate revenues of over $7 billion in 2010, according to NanoMarkets LC, a firm of analysts. The market is set to be driven by demand for printable displays, RFIDs, photovoltaics, computer memory and other printable products, the firm said. NanoMarkets (Glen Allen, Virginia) said that the areas with the largest growth opportunities include printable displays, which NanoMarkets projects to be a market worth over $3 billion in 2010, printable RFIDs which will be worth $2.2 billion, and computer memory and photovoltaics which will achieve more modest, yet significant, market opportunities...