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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: ixfd64 on December 11, 2013, 12:01:08 am
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I'm just curious: are there any up-to-date electronic noses being sold these days?
They're supposed to be an emerging technology that is gaining traction (much like thermal cameras), yet I could not find any being sold except for the 13-year-old Cyranose 320. What's really weird is that it's $7,995 price tag has not changed after all those years. Has the market for electronic noses gone stale? Or is the demand just too low?
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i guess, difficult to manufature or miniaturize, unstable or under development. interesting how far we went to Mars yet we failed on this subject. if its available, the demand should be as big as ipad/samsung pad. i also would love to get one to detect if someone shits.
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I think the demand for them is far smaller than you think, and many applications could use much cheaper sensors targeted at particular chemicals.
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i also would love to get one to detect if someone shits.
I've got an organic one for that. Unfortunately, by the time the alarm is raised it's already too late.
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I think the demand for them is far smaller than you think, and many applications could use much cheaper sensors targeted at particular chemicals.
you'll never know what a social interaction/demand can be. if there is olphactory sensor and odor producer combined, someone can send his fart online to another globe.
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I think the demand for them is far smaller than you think, and many applications could use much cheaper sensors targeted at particular chemicals.
There are widely deployed biological units (http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/0N3GVUv0Cdp/David+Carter+Speaks+Graduation+Detector+Dogs/uN9ht4g-SKD/Courtney+Moore) that have demonstrated real effectiveness both at detecting chemical signatures (scents) and also as psychological deterrents. Competing technologies have to demonstrate superior performance and cost-effectiveness, to say nothing of capturing law enforcements' hearts and minds.
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i also would love to get one to detect if someone shits.
Haha, I figured someone would bring that up. :P
I think the demand for them is far smaller than you think, and many applications could use much cheaper sensors targeted at particular chemicals.
I'm surprised there is no commercialized device for detecting truffles despite it being a big hype in the early 1990's. Truffles are very valuable, so any detector, even if it costs thousands of dollars, would quickly pay for itself.