Smell the Glove

What on earth for:

A gadget that can capture a smell and replay it back, just as camcorders do with images, could soon be available

Japanese scientists have developed a system that records smells of various fruits, such as apples and oranges.

The handheld device records the smells onto a system of microchips.

When the "recording" is played back, the microchips recreate the smell from 96 man-made chemicals.

Funny, I can't think of any uses for this that wouldn't be sophomoric. And I would have thought that old scratch-n-sniff technology would have adequately addressed whatever meager needs anyone would have for this.