China has awarded a prestigious "Pineapple Prize" to a fart-detector.
The Pineapple Prizes are organised by Guokr.com, a Chinese popular science publication that named the award after the fruit which in China is said to be so ugly that only the brave and curious would explore its delicious interior. The prizes therefore look for discoveries that are both useful and amusing.
This year that approach saw Li Jigong of Tianjin University take out the Physics prize for a device Chinese state media says "not only solves the mystery of who farted, but provides a way to locate the source of any odor through the complex dynamics of air."
A spot of research suggests there's actually some serious work behind this one, as Jigong is co-author of a paper titled Odor source localization using a mobile robot in outdoor airflow environments with a particle filter algorithm .
To become standard equipment in elevators everywhere?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2016, @05:12AM
It's a Physics prize, only works with spherical cows...
(Score: 2) by toygeek on Tuesday April 12 2016, @05:15AM
Who smellt it dealt it.
There is no Sig. Okay, maybe a short one. http://miscdotgeek.com
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Tuesday April 12 2016, @06:05AM
obviously, this breaks that rule because the machine may have smelt it but is physically incapable of having dealt it.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday April 12 2016, @06:22AM
China may also have developed a fart gun.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday April 12 2016, @06:49AM
Perhaps [youtu.be]
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday April 12 2016, @07:10AM
No.
Who denied it, supplied it.
(Everybody knows that.....)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday April 12 2016, @08:14AM
He who said the rhyme did the crime.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 12 2016, @09:32AM
You did read the dept. line?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2016, @02:39PM
He who related it, inflated it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2016, @05:16AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2016, @06:24AM
So, now we're creating the mechanical "dogs" in Fahrenheit 451... It's about time, I suppose, since 1984 and a Brave New World are both becoming our reality.
This is why I don't publish my dystopian works of fantasy. I know they'll be used as blueprints rather than warnings.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2016, @06:32AM
...and they ask me to light their farts. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I don't.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 12 2016, @09:37AM
This is a good ability to have if you want to find some gas leak, or find the origin of some pollution.
Thinking of it, a fart is actually both. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2016, @09:51AM
Gays have always been enthusiastic and accurate fart sniffers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2016, @01:26PM
It detects a fart, then fingers the fat guy carrying the styrofoam food carton.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2016, @03:18PM
So it detects Americans then.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2016, @05:08PM
Just the ones of European ancestry.
(Score: 2) by khchung on Tuesday April 12 2016, @11:56PM
Since when do a single company represents the whole country?
Would you write "US blocked access to anti-LGBT supporters?" because xHamsters blocked NC residents who supported anti-LGBT laws?
Would you write "USA Had Misled Investors About Mortgage-Backed Securities" now that Goldman Sachs was fined for it?
Dear Editors, don't you see a problem here?
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Wednesday April 13 2016, @06:11PM
How does the Particle filter based OSL algorithm work?