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Computer Chip That Senses Smell Could Save Money, Reduce Waste

posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 10 2015, @11:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the sniff dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

A Massachusetts-based startup called C2Sense, using research conducted at MIT, has created what they call "disruptive gas sensing technologies" that will be used to sniff out rotting food, Wired reports.

Early detection of spoilage is critical to keeping other foods in a container from going bad. Take fruit for instance: as a piece of fruit ripens, it releases a gas called ethylene, which accelerates the ripening of nearby fruits, prompting them to release even more ethylene, quickly spoiling, as the saying goes, the whole barrel.
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Shnorr says his company hopes to make sensor chips cheap enough to be built into food packaging that could be scanned with smartphones, which would provide users with a "freshness reading."

Noses are passe.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by opinionated_science on Tuesday November 10 2015, @04:51PM

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Tuesday November 10 2015, @04:51PM (#261325)

    I read the NSF abstract, they only claim ethylene. In marketing blurb claims "amines" too, and other "important gases".

    Maybe they are being secretive due to startup funding, but this is an almost content free article.

    Not having a go at the submitter (Phonenix666?) , but this is a very poor technical spec that only has one molecule listed.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday November 10 2015, @10:26PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday November 10 2015, @10:26PM (#261462) Journal

    Some news days are better than others :)

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