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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
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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.
Wondering if it also works on pathogens like Listeria or Clostridium botulinum, and if they have an idea to resolve the food matrix issues. Easily a million dollar industry only for food manufacturing alone, then.
If you can make a Jacobson to Vestigial transpiler, I’ll attach it to my face and see what all the rage is about with these fire hydrants.
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.
Honestly, this is a really cool result. Since it’s a prototype I’m sure it’s wildly expensive right now, but eventually it’ll come down in cost that you can buy sensors like this for cheap. Rather than throwing stuff away once it’s past the expiration date, you now would wait for a positive sensor hit instead. Would really reduce food waste which is a huge problem.
Obvious this is gonna be used in some industrial purposes
I worked at a company making a project to auto detect poopy diapers (help new parents change them quicker and track schedules — unclear if there's real benefit but anyway). It turned out to be surprisingly hard to differentiate poop from other organic odors, like coffee.
Anyway, I could see better auto olfactory sensors having applications outside of food.
maybe useful in mining or refineries to detect gas leaks etc.
Also my own nose can, although that came free with my body. How much will this cost me?
This is for everyone whose factory included nose stopped working after the warranty ran out.
And not all are covid related. I know at least one person who couldn't smell because of a brain injury, years before covid19 came around.
Interesting, that must suck sometimes.
My smeller isn't that sensitive.
Bet you it is, if you just know what to smell for. 👃❤️
Bet you it isn't, since they just told us they have a diminished sense of smell
Bet you it is, since most people are simply unawarw of the things they should be smelling for, and since many people don't cook their own food they have no confidence in their abilities.
Seems a little weird to assume diminished sense of smell based on their comment comparing their sense to that of an electronic device tailor made for smelling...
Does practice cooking improve your ability to smell when food has gone bad? It seems like an instinctual hardwired thing to me.
I didn't interpret their comment to mean that their nose is not as sensitive as the electronic sensor, I read it as "my nose isn't very sensitive".
Sometimes people say they can't do things just because of lack of experience. Maybe they just think it is.
Just trying to be hopeful. 🫶
I believe you had good intentions. And maybe I brought my own baggage to this thread.
Anyway, I said what I did because it can be frustrating for folks with disabilities to be told things like "I believe in you". These well-intentioned responses indicate that you don't believe their disability is real.
If you tell me you have a disability, I believe you. I didn't see them say that outright. It was very open to interpretation. 🙂
Smell-o-vision, here we come!