Word: detect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There's fresh interest in a handheld gadget called the Cyranose 320, which can be programmed with the "smellprint" of various microbes and then issue an alert if it detects them. Cyrano Sciences, which is based in Pasadena, Calif., and is associated with the California Institute of Technology, has been selling the electronic nose for more than a year. The company manufactured it for use in the food-service and chemical industries. The device can tell whether basil is fresh and warn if a shipment of fish has started to rot. It can also identify contaminants in perfumes or chemicals...
These days, Langlois' equipment is supplied by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, where the biologist has been working for two years on a piece of equipment that is suddenly commanding great interest: a continuous air-monitoring system that can detect within an hour the presence of any bacteria or virus in a basketball stadium, shopping mall or other indoor place. "It's like a smoke alarm" for harmful biological agents, says Langlois...
While other air sniffers are in the works or already in use, the refrigerator-size APDS stands out for its ability to rapidly detect even trace amounts of 100 different germs. To avoid the nuisance of false positives, suspected pathogens undergo a second, DNA-based test before officials are alerted...
There are plenty of massage chairs that will vibrate energetically up and down your weary body, but the new H.9 Inada Chair from Japan puts some brains behind the brawn. When you sit in it, infrared sensors scan your body to detect some 350 acupressure points. Once oriented, the leather chair begins a customized, Shiatsu-style massage accompanied by synchronized music meant to melt your tension away. If the synthesizer music drives you nuts, you can always pop in a CD of your...
...secret Internet messages, known as steganography, may be the most insidious way bin Laden has taken his terrorist movement online. Steganography, Greek for "hidden writing," allows messages to be slipped into innocuous picture and music files. The trick is that the insertions are so small they're impossible to detect with the naked eye, but easily retrieved through special software tools...