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One Day, a Machine Will Smell Whether You’re Sick

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Re: One Day, a Machine Will Smell Whether You’re Sick

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What kind of sensor technology can "smell"?

I mean the CMOS was a break through for image sensors.

There are air quality sensors and various kind of gas sensors.

But what sensor tech can be used to smell odor?

There are dogs that smell drugs, cancer, and what not - so "just" a sensor is needed to get the data in difital format.

[btw NYT article page crashes my mobile browser mid article, what are they doing? Their site used to be lean, now it's dog slow and something is wrong with scrolling]

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