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 1 hour 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 3 hours 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