Or just, you know, practice decent food hygiene. Dinner’s going to be ruined if it takes an hour, anyway.
Why model it after a nose is what I am curious about?
1 hour??
I’ll take my chances, give me that food!
I know this isn’t food illness related but Odor is big business. In the solid waste management business lawsuits over odor have been filed across many states for multimillion dollar settlements. Subjectivity is high and devices like “Scentometer” and “Nasal-Ranger”(I could be mistaken with this particular name) exist to help detect and quantify odors.
If it can “sniff out” the food poisoning like the ppb of a VOC generated from one bacteria, that could be amazing. I’m sure most of us have had a food poisoning incident and I would certainly have loved to avoided that event. 🤢
So, everyone has to sit around watching the food get cold for a full hour, before it’s cleared to eat? Brilliant!
1 hour?
“OK everybody leave that fresh food out in the counter while we wait to see if it’s spoiled.”
-waiting noises-
That’s a lot faster than culturing, sequencing, or otherwise identifying pathogens. I’ve worked in a QC lab before starting grad school and that takes 2-3 days +.
The challenge for these electronic noses is determining what exactly they are picking up on…we don’t always know what they are “smelling”
I had a similar thought. After reading the article this seems to be more for industrial or investigative use, where the one hour delay is actually fast. It doesn’t seem like something that is intended to be used to double check if random food is spoiled in your house. Think of a situation in which foodborne illness is being investigated. This device could provide an answer in an hour, as opposed to sending food off to a lab to check days later. Or, a factory could use it to keep more real time tracking of the food they’re making since a lot of foodborne illness starts there. One hour of delay is still pretty good since the food is tracked and likely wouldn’t have left the factory by then.
I wish they would produce a home version. I lost my sense of smell over 10 years ago and I struggle with figuring out if something is off or not.
Yeah good for mass checking. But then, why shape like a nose which likes a consumer product move?
Simple, it’s eye catching, no pun intended. I doubt the real deal would look like that.
C-level types are the same dumb-asses that consumer goods are aimed at. There’s marketing at every level.
No one is going to be using this at home. And if they were, just plan ahead.
Smell-O-Vision! I’m thinking that we can hook this up to Musk’s neurolink and smell his farts in real time! I actually went and saw John Water’s Polyester and I think I still have the scratch and sniff Odor-Rama card.
That’s great… Soon:
(ping) “The meal you just ate poisoned you…”Sir Noise Dvoid of …food
Reminds me of that Korean comic with those sniffing apartment doors.
Okay I get it smells but guys it doesn’t have to be a nose. Just saying lol
That that was a tissue box
Saw this 30 years ago in Richie Rich.
Why shape it like a nose?
1hr could be calc time and not that you hold meat under it for an hour. This bit seems important.
Meanwhile, fellow AI expert, Kjell Carlisson of San Francisco-based Domino Data Lab, says that the e-noses would need complicated fine tuning for each facility they were working at. “This is an extraordinarily difficult task in an industry not known for embracing new technologies,” he says.
even without that, business wouldnt adopt unless they see a lot of savings from not having spoiled meat in the deli, but you know we are pretty good detectors ourselves. Yeah this might be better but we are calculating if its better even for the cost and training and use. Then you add all this on top… vaporware, sorry but it is. Until it can be taken out of a box and turned on, its vaporware as far as this goes.
The beverage industry already uses these pretty intensively, alongside human sensory testing. I might be wrong, but I think the development here is connecting it to AI to help detect things faster and more accurately. With similar technology already widely used, it may not be as daunting a task as you might think.