Futurama was first

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From Beth Haigh I was surprised, and a little disappointed, to see no reference to the Futurama episode "A Big Piece of Garbage" (series 1, episode 8) in the article about the Nasal Ranger (12 February, p 21). I would have thought that at least one person on the team behind New Scientist would be a big enough science-fiction fan to make this connection, as the Nasal Ranger is basically a portable Smelloscope -albeit with a slightly altered function.