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...dream of a sensor that sounds a buzzer when a child's liquid content nears full, homes in on the nearest public bathroom and, when you get there, brakes the car to a stop in one-fifth of a second and opens the door even faster. They could call it Bladdermatic. I long for interior window surfaces chemically coated to atomize dog-slobber on contact...
...Sensor Emitters Geolocation Devices Radio Transceiver...
Electrospun Materials Power/SensorGrid Circulation Tubules Skin-Temperature Sensor Patch...
...noses, chemical sensors replace the body's cellular receptors, and microprocessors substitute for the brain. "What limits these devices is how well the sensors are doing," explains Nathan Lewis, the Caltech chemist who helped invent the sensor technology licensed by Cyrano and who has since continued his research independently. He compares the power of e-noses to the resolution of computer monitors: "Are you seeing the world in eight shades of gray or in 16 million colors...
...Cyrano's enthusiastic (and aptly named) ceo Steven Sunshine is to be believed, Cyranose is "seeing" in Technicolor. When properly trained, its 32-sensor Nose-Chip[TM] can sniff a particular variety of rice and tell you not only which one it is but also where it was grown. Does it smell as well as we do? Yes and no. It has trouble detecting some things to which human noses are acutely attuned--such as the stench of rotting eggs--but it can be trained to pick up others most people would never notice. There are limits, however...