Technological University alumnus, has created the oPhone, which will allow odors -- oNotes -- to be sent, via Bluetooth and smartphone attachments, to oPhones across the state, country or ocean, where the recipient can enjoy American Beauties or any other variety of rose.

It can be sent via email, tweet, or text.

Edwards says the idea started with student designers in his class at Harvard, where he is a professor.

"We invite young students to bring their design dreams," he says. "We have a different theme each year, and that year it was virtual worlds."

The all-female team came up with virtual aromas, and he brought two of the students to Paris to work on the project. Normally, he says, there's a clear end in sight, but with their project no onehad a clue who was going to pay for the research or if there was even a market.

With the early major buzz produced -- Wired Magazine, National Public Radio, and the British press -- Edwards is sure the market will come.

So, how does the scent technology work?

"We create unique aromatic profiles," says Blake Armstrong, director of business communications at Vapor Communications, an organization operating out of Le Laboratorie (Le Lab) in Paris. "We put that into the oChip that faithfully renders that smell."

Edwards said that the initial four chips that will come with the first oPhones can be combined into thousands different odors -- produced for 20 to 30 seconds -- creating what he calls "an evolution of odor."

The secret is in accurate scent reproduction, locked in those