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The nose knows: Electric schnoz can smell when your food’s gone bad (news.berkeley.edu)
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[–] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Top comment for me right now offers anosmia as a reason to want this kind of solution

You didn't ask but the statement of facts implied you might see that as interesting and valid

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I did think about including that in my comment as a caveat, but it's obvious enough. This could be a good product for a very tiny number of people. There's going to be an attempt to sell it to the average person though, and the average person should ignore it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Average people will ignore it until economy of scale kicks in

    Even if it doesn't do shit if it is cheap enough people will buy it

    And only when abundant enough will people start messing with the tech and rebel against it's premise by doing new things that hadn't been conceived before

    Maybe parkinson's could be smelt by it

    Or maybe someone smells the moon with one

    We might start sniffing black holes next and find out we have a wagging tailbone and then realise

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