Gadget Chimp

The Internet is undoubtedly a daily assault on the senses.  Every day one jacks in to the Matrix, one is awash in tweets, status updates, and YouTube videos of random people getting jacked in the groin.

It’s a beautiful thing.

For those of you who quite simply just need MORE from the Internet; welcome Olly.  Olly is an open source stink-bot, as gathered from the product website.  Completely open, programmers can tweak Olly to… emit.. a smelly alert triggered by social media events.  Someone likes your page?  Olly lets your nose know.  New tweet?  *sniff sniff*… yup!  Oh the possibilities are endless.  The concept seems pretty straightforward, you can load up Olly with oils, objects, fruit, pretty much anything that will fit and has an odor.  After that, you just tie it to an event to get it to “fire” when said event occurs.

While I enjoy any device with this much technology paired with pointlessness – I can only imagine how annoying this could rapidly become.  A device like this begs for an entirely new black-hat attack: let’s call it a SOL (Sensory OverLoad) attack.  Step one, you load up Olly with some peppermint oil.  Step two, you tie Olly to “toot” when you’re tagged on Twitter.  Step three, imagine the mayhem when one of your less-than-awesome friends decides to spam your Twitter feed only for you to return to your office which now smells like a candy-cane orgy.  Madness, I tell you.

These are not available yet, so no review for you (unfortunately).  I’m going to keep my eyes open, however, and I’ll review one if I get my hands on an Olly before I’m distracted by something shiny and new.  I’m a chimp, after all.

For those of you who may also want to hop this train, check it out:

http://ollyfactory.com/