You know what also has hundreds of millions of years of development in detecting what's gone bad, and costs you nothing?! Your actual nose! It's also almost certainly better than this product. Just smell your food. It'll tell you when something has gone bad. The date on it, or anything else, doesn't.

[–] TheparishofChigwell@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago (1 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

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour 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.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

It might make sense for industrial applications, where they can use it to tell if something has gone off before shipping it out, or having someone sniff all the food.

[–] TheparishofChigwell@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour 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