Aldous Huxley must be turning over in his grave… If Japan has its way, we could all one day be enjoying feelies and scent organs: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will set up an industry-academia-government research and development unit this year that will work to commercialize virtual reality television by 2020," writes Japan Today. VRTV would generate three-dimensional, high-definition images that can be viewed from any angle, also allowing viewers to feel and smell the objects they are watching. (Via MIT Advertising Lab, via [aptly] We Make Money Not Art. "But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead." - The Controller, in Brave New World.)