News Asus launches scented laptops

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/08/26/asus-launches-scented-laptops/1

Asus has revealed its latest laptop line, with colourful designs a plenty - along with a matching fragrance. Could smelly laptops be the future of mobile computing?

 

Um - Wut?

I happen to like the smell of plastic, solder and flux.

I'm not sure anyone would pay extra for this... would they?

 

I can see what they went for, but that just ends up being a bit weird.

Personally, I love the smell of a new bit of kit - it has to be up there with petrol and fresh grass clippings tbh.

 

To say that's weird is a bit of an understatement.

I like the way my laptop smells of paint, but I liked its 'out of the box' smell more.

 

ZOMGZ
scratch & sniff internets. the web 3.0

 

Oh the horrors sites like 4chan would commit with web 3.0 D:

 

I think its a nice touch... its a bit faddy but im sure theres a good market for it.... ewww cooties!!!

 

Why oh why didn't they team up with Lynx and offer a Bom-chika-wah-wah laptop?

 

if the price is right, id pay for it.

i got enough plastic solder and flux in the office and throughout college.....

 

I must buy a new asus laptop, they smell great!
Seriously what are they trying to achieve.

 

I wouldn't base my laptop pick on smell but like Readbeaver said if the price was right I'd buy it too

 

they could do a nerd edition that always smells of new hardware

btw, try coloured watercooling tubes, some of the most intense new plastic smell ever.

 

But why would I want people sitting next to me on the train?

 

This is a terrible product. Sure, I won't buy it, but someone else using one nearby is like that person listening to music without headphones.

...maybe for people who like smelly things, they can come out with an edition where you plug a pair of tubes into a port, and stick the ends up their nose. It'd be just like headphones - but uncomfortable and goofy!