One day, a machine will smell your weakness. Then it will come for the kill.
One Day, a Machine Will Smell Whether You’re Sick
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#32One day, a machine will smell your weakness. Then it will come for the kill.
I'm already a Windows 10 user, so it will have to do its very worst.
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#33Dogs
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#34Really? I wonder how it will smell like..
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#35I work for Owlstone Medical as a software engineer, so ask me any questions and I'll try to answer as best I can. Also, we're hiring! https://www.owlstonemedical.com/about/careers/
I dream of a future where a sensor can detect from your urine/blood/bowel movement wether you have cancer or some disease.
Imagine a push notification to your phone that says you have a 82% chance of having hepatitis or something.
Do you think that could ever be a reality?
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#36What if you don't want others to know about your health, or whatever else a machine can smell?
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#37BBC had a great story about a woman who was able to smell Parkinson's in people YEARS before they were even diagnosed: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34583642 .
Not years, just eight months, but it's still incredible.
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#38I work for Owlstone Medical as a software engineer, so ask me any questions and I'll try to answer as best I can. Also, we're hiring! https://www.owlstonemedical.com/about/careers/
Are you using a variant of LSPR or SERS?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to your sibling, there are already off-the-shelf sensors that detect some malodors. Maybe we just need to source already-existing components and convince an EE/manufacturing engineer to do a kickstarter?
The problem is that you need to know what chemical you are looking for that's causing the smell. Are there any sensors that can detect a wide range of smells?
A quick google search reveals a number of label free odor sensors, everything is early stage though.
Label free may not be the best phrase for what you meant though. Label free means you are looking at all biomarkers present in a sample, the primary challenge with label free is that we don't know every biomarker to look for or what every biomarker we see means.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is that you need to know what chemical you are looking for that's causing the smell. Are there any sensors that can detect a wide range of smells?
A quick google search reveals a number of label free odor sensors, everything is early stage though. Label free may not be the best phrase for what you meant though. Label free means you are looking at all biomarkers present in a sample, the primary challenge with label free is that we don't know every biomarker to look for or what every biomarker we see means.
Seems once you have enough datapoints you should be able to do something with machine learning to distinguish good from bad smells.