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The nose knows: Electric schnoz can smell when your food’s gone bad
(news.berkeley.edu)
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How much will food companies pay to get it to tell you that your food is bad early so you go shopping sooner?
Will it be able to tell the difference between blue cheese and rotting blue cheese?
I can imagine people testing the hell out of it on blue cheese and rotting blue cheese and even more immature tests like when someone farts or something.
Video of the development process, presumably: https://youtu.be/OPeC7o9iDnI