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Cute post, except smell sensors DO exist.
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Why not using a digital noise?Maybe they could use something like this.
From the FAQ:
Q: What can you sense and discriminate?
A: Generally our polymer composite sensors can detect volatiles with molecular weights from 30 to 250. However this is not a sure rule since we have also developed sensors that respond to compounds outside of this molecular range. We have demonstrated the sensitivity and discrimination to pure solvents (butanol, toluene, DMSO), complex mixtures (commercially available perfumes), natural products (essential oils, coffees, fruits) and by products from the metabolic breakdown of bacteria. We have also tested grains, rancidity of dried products, spices, and packaging materials.
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Why not using a digital noise?Maybe they could use something like this.
From the FAQ:
Q: What can you sense and discriminate?
A: Generally our polymer composite sensors can detect volatiles with molecular weights from 30 to 250. However this is not a sure rule since we have also developed sensors that respond to compounds outside of this molecular range. We have demonstrated the sensitivity and discrimination to pure solvents (butanol, toluene, DMSO), complex mixtures (commercially available perfumes), natural products (essential oils, coffees, fruits) and by products from the metabolic breakdown of bacteria. We have also tested grains, rancidity of dried products, spices, and packaging materials.
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Re:Mapping the noise around you.
See also the article that Toby Lester wrote for The Atlantic Monthly from April 1997.Have a look and see if your computer and monitor are together playing a diminshed second at you, and thus encouraging you to feel "active anguish in a context of flux".
Other segments were about Cyrano Science's Electronic Nose; a woman who, as frequently as Several dozen times a day, checks her breasts for cancerous lumps; a guy who has systematically gone to every restaurant on Pico Blvd. in LA (starting with Mr. Coleslaw Burger; and the fellow who has mapped the pumpkins, streetlights, overhead wires, street signs, newspaper mentions of addresses, and numerous other aspects of his neighborhood.
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Re:Other applicationsWow, this thing only ways about 2lb
This just for the handhels unit shown here I'll bet that they can get this thing down to the size of a watch, and it'll be the next yuppie thing. Hell, I might. buy one if it came down to the 2K range.
Could this be used as a robot bloodhound? They claim that it can work in almost any environment, but how good is it at distinguishing similar odours?
The article claims it can be used for testing if two smells are similar, I'm guessing that this is one of the things it is realy good at. But is it better than a real dog? Can this device be used to help obsure contraband by acting as a simple test to see if the contraband can be smelt?