Post-Traumatic Gaming Therapy Pt. 2

In Wired, Jay Dixit adds to the coverage of video game treatment for Iraq veterans with PTSD:

Then there’s the smell machine: a TiVo-sized box containing eight pressurized chambers loaded with small capsules. A compressor shoots air into the chambers, fans create a breeze, and the scent wafts in. Rizzo and his team licensed seven smells from perfumeries: garbage, weapons fire, cordite, Iraqi spices, diesel fuel, burning rubber, and body odor. (They’re hoping to add cooked lamb.) [...]

“Do you have the smell of burning flesh?” someone asked.

“Not yet,” Rizzo said, making a mental note.

 Link: Wired 14.08: The War on Terror.