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Artificial smells are induced by focused ultrasound

development2026-04-17

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Researchers induced artificial smells using 300-kHz focused ultrasound aimed at the olfactory bulb with no cartridges required, making olfaction a software call, while a California startup is developing a thought-to-text headpiece that reads internal speech.

Reported metric: 300 kHz

Reporting date: 2026-04-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 17, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Artificial smells are induced by focused ultrasound
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Reporting date: 2026-04-17
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-17-smell-becomes-a-software-call
Claim: Researchers induced artificial smells using 300-kHz focused ultrasound aimed at the olfactory bulb with no cartridges required, making olfaction a software call, while a California startup is developing a thought-to-text headpiece that reads internal speech.
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- Welcome to April 17, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-17-2026
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