“Smell that? Tea tree. That’s how you know all 17 of the test respondents are available,” said When2meet developer Don Engel, PhD, hovering the nose-shaped cursor icon over a green time slot. “It adds a whole new dimension of feedback for the user. Smell what happens when I mouse over a specific user’s calendar. New car. Michael’s free for breakfast on Tuesday.”

“Here we have our second test response group, composed of somewhat busier people,” said Dr. Engel, stifling his vomit and moving his cursor over a completely unavailable time slot. “Oh God, oh fuck, dead horse dissolved in vinegar, dead horse dissolved in vinegar! No one’s available on Wednesday!”

At press time, it was announced that an update to Google Calendar will allow users to taste events 10 minutes in advance.