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'Fart Detector' Wins Chinese Physics Prize

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday April 12 2016, @05:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the he-who-smelt-it-dealt-it dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 2) by toygeek on Tuesday April 12 2016, @05:15AM

    by toygeek (28) on Tuesday April 12 2016, @05:15AM (#330470) Homepage

    Who smellt it dealt it.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Tuesday April 12 2016, @06:05AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Tuesday April 12 2016, @06:05AM (#330478)

    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

      by mhajicek (51) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 12 2016, @06:22AM (#330483)

      China may also have developed a fart gun.

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    • (Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday April 12 2016, @06:49AM

      by sjames (2882) on Tuesday April 12 2016, @06:49AM (#330487) Journal

      Perhaps [youtu.be]

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday April 12 2016, @07:10AM

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday April 12 2016, @07:10AM (#330493)

    No.

    Who denied it, supplied it.

    (Everybody knows that.....)

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  • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday April 12 2016, @08:14AM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Tuesday April 12 2016, @08:14AM (#330500) Homepage

    He who said the rhyme did the crime.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 12 2016, @09:32AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 12 2016, @09:32AM (#330511) Journal

    You did read the dept. line?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2016, @02:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 12 2016, @02:39PM (#330625)

    He who related it, inflated it.