iSmell

Cooksey Thomas, formerly a senior designer for Sega Dreamcast, has joined Digiscents. Thomas will lead the team working on the Digiscent ScentStream API, a software system that allows the broadcast of scents with electronic media in conjunction with a personal scent synthesizer called, um, iSmell. Cooksey Thomas had previously developed Sega's Dreamcast audio API. "Just as sound has become an integral part of the gaming experience and soundtracks have become a necessity in movies, we believe that over time, digital scent will also become ubiquitous in most forms of media" said Digiscents CEO Joel Bellenson, "Cooksey's development tools have been used to create hundreds of interactive games, so we are excited to have him spearhead the development of the API for digital scent."