Oscar Mayer has come up with an iPhone app that will wake up its user in the best possible way, to the smells and sounds of bacon being made.
According to Mashable, the app has an accompanying iPhone dongle that can produce the smell of bacon. The app, called Wake Up and Smell the Bacon, also produces the sizzling sound and the image of bacon frying on a pan.
The user can set his or her own alarm sound, but the bacon noises and smells act as a supplement to it. Unfortunately, no actual bacon is involved.
"With nearly two million mentions of #bacon on Instagram, it seems people never get tired of bacon. That's why our team decided to develop a device to give folks what they long for most," Tom Bick, senior director of integrated marketing and advertising at Oscar Mayer, said in a statement. "As the category leader, Oscar Mayer is thrilled to bring the first-ever, bacon-scented mobile device to market, giving bacon aficionados a new reason to welcome their morning alarm clocks."
The bacon maker is not putting the device up for sale, but is instead giving users a chance to win one by taking a quiz on their website. The contest will be open until April 4 and winners will then receive their bacon-smelling iPhone dongles within four to six weeks.
The contest comes from the Oscar Mayer Institute For the Advancement of Bacon (OMIFAB), whose mission is to create "a better bacon strip."
"OMIFAB is a consortium of the world's greatest bacon minds dedicated to unlocking the bacon's deepest mysteries for the benefit of bacon lovers everywhere," according to the website.
Mashable's Karissa Bell described the smell from the dongle as "more jerky than bacon," but noted a colleague was "enamored [with] the smoky smell."
Along with the alarm and aroma is voice than can be turned on or off within the app that says various short bacon-related sayings.
"Experience bacon with all your senses," the voice says. "Like the deepest root, like the stormiest ocean, it's briney cure endures. Bacon exceeds everything you ever imagined."
