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Your iPhone Will Soon Detect Bad Breath
Julie188 writes "A tiny San Francisco startup, Adamant Technologies, is trying to give your iPhone a sense of smell and taste.. The company has created a computer chip that works with a bunch of tiny sensors to digitize these senses. The first app planned is a consumer device that plugs into an iPhone and detects bad breath."
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Neither do I, but I'm interested in a usable 2,000 chemical sensor package for under $100.
Well, guess who has bad breath.
portable breathalyzer App upcoming
Get everyone to install it on the premise that "it'll help you detect if you have bad breath". Make it sensitive enough that it can also detect traces of explosives, chemicals used to produce meth and other drugs, gunpowder, and so on. When it does, call home with the geolocation of the individual and full report of chemicals detected. Maybe force it to take a few snapshots and some audio recording of the user and their surroundings, without alerting them with any type of notifications. You don't need to make citizens spy on each other, because they'll gladly spy on themselves! :D
iFart?
http://www.youtube.com/user/ifartmobile
How long until the first Breath-iLyzer app?
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Using an iPhone? At least I can already detect bad taste...
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I don't see where that's the case.
Article says a $100 add-on, and their fancy sensors-on-a-chip are meant to be used with phones, PC's, and medical devices.
For $18, I wouldn't make any bets on the reliability of this one,... It's probably much safer to just pay for a cab ride home ... And definitely cheaper than a DUI attorney,... ;-)
If smells fishy vibration [turn ON].
Well they will plan to make the Brethalyzer app but instead they retire as billionaires from the $3 "rate my fart, bro" app and lose interest.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Article says a $100 add-on, and their fancy sensors-on-a-chip are meant to be used with phones, PC's, and medical devices.
Then why the fuck the headline says 'iphone'?
Because a sensor-on-a-chip is not a commercial product. A gizmo that plugs into a phone is. Such a gizmo targeting an iPhone may simply be the first such product. Numerous sources indicate that Android users are less prone to spend money than iPhone users so it makes sense to target iPhone first, or maybe even only. I lean towards iPhone first not iPhone only. By the time you have an iPhone product that R&D is a sunk cost and the Android version may be justified on the incremental cost to get such a version.
Neither do I, but I'm interested in a usable 2,000 chemical sensor package for under $100.
Well, you could start with one of these: http://www.conrad.com/Voltcraft-CO-20-USB-Air-Quality-Sensor.htm?websale7=conrad-int&pi=101316
I'm about to start writing Android USB support for it, by coincidence. There's a googlable Linux driver with source available, too.
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Well, there's more here: http://www.produktinfo.conrad.com/datenblaetter/100000-124999/101316-in-01-de-VOLTCRAFT_CO20_USB_LUFTQUALITAETSFUEHLER.pdf
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I have one hooked up to a mini-router, flashed with OpenWrt: http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Portable-802-11n-Wireless-TL-MR3020/dp/B006DEBXD0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357496964&sr=8-1&keywords=tp-link+mr3020
It sends messages with the MQTT protocol on to an IBM Intelligent Operations Center. I test it by blowing on it . . . to measure my bad breath(on topic) . . . or I just smoke a Cuban cigar . . . and I take it into meetings . . . when the LED turns red, the meeting has been going too long.
And I learned about the wonders of OpenWrt . . . on Slashdot . . .
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I personally have had this idea for about 10-15 years.. But i gave up the idea when Siemens created a small sensor for detecting "bad breath".. And said that one of the reasons was to implement it in a mobile phone so that it should be easy to carry around.. Think it was about 5-10 years ago.. See http://phys.org/news1194.html for one article about this.. Also mentioning "breath" as something interesting to analyze.. It will however have a great sale potential.. Salesmen really would like to know of their breath is ok before visiting a customer.. A young guy would love to know that he has a nice breath before kissing a girl for the first time..;-) Same for the girl of course..
Siri: You need to take a shower! It smells like balls in here! Siri: Oh my god! Cover my smell receptor! Why do you have to fart when I'm in your back pocket!
That'd be interesting. If it can detect smells beyond human capability and with the write software, we can make it form patterns, trails, etc. like dogs. Then we can even detect if a new foreign smell has been at your house. Also, if you're lost in the woods, you could find your way back; although, there's GPS for that... This could by quite useful for diseases or high levels of Carbon Dioxide or smell your poop and determine unhealthy diet (low in iron), but I bet the hardware isn't up to snuff.
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No, but you want to try some mouthwash.
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