Last week, there was an annual event called Digital Content Expo 2009 at Miraikan, Japan’s national museum of emerging science and innovation located in the Tokyo waterfront area, which introduced approximately 50 artistic elements and R&D results of newly developed digital content technologies.

Let’s see some of items which were exhibited at the event with IT news media’s video coverage and the exhibitor’s presentation videos.

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Back To the Mouth(Game Title) & La Flèche de l’odeur (Blowgun Device, meaning the Arrow of Smell in French)

(Developed by Kosaka Laboratory[J], Dept. of Computer Engineering and International Communication, Kanazawa Technical College[J])

People usually do their best to inhibit bad breath, but you need not take care of it when you play this game. The college exhibited a shooting game on which you may attack monsters with your bad breath. During the game, players take strong-smelling foods and drinks such as cheese, chocolate, potato chips, cakes, beer and wine, and they use a smell sensor-enabled blowgun and attack