So, Sony Ericsson has designed a new cell phone for Japan’s DoCoMo. “A new cell-phone from Japan?” you’re probably asking. “Does it have laser-gun technology built in? Or new mind-reading technology? Or at least Wii-like motion-sensor technology*?”

Well, no. Actually, the SO703i provides no “technological” advancements at all. What it does provide, however, is the best-smelling phone call you have ever experienced. Go ahead and read for yourselves.

Is this what the intense competition between cell-phone manufacturers has come to? Surely they can do better than that.* When they become able to communicate the scents via mobile technology, that’s when I’ll be impressed.

So in more personal / less interesting news, classes and final exams are over, Amy, Brian, and myself turned twenty-one on Tuesday, and I have a shiny new cell-phone that smells like a cell-phone. The number is still the same.

I’m hoping to take lots of photos this month, to participate in the May 2007 “26 Things” project. I’ve never claimed to be a professional or good or even a serious photographer. It’s always been just a hobby, and honestly, it always will be. I tend to feel rather unaccomplished amid my super-artistic friends, and so even though I’m taking snapshots with a little Canon consumer-camera, I’m determined to enjoy my efforts.

Things are going well for me, and I hope they are going equally as well for all of you.

* Actually, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. really has designed a Wii-like motion-sensor technology cell-phone. Sadly, this one also only in Japan.