In this modern era, technology is becoming more advanced by the minute. TVs and Cell phones have become sleeker and more advanced almost every year. According to a Tech Times, computers these days are slowly getting human senses as well. The cameras become their eyes, and the microphones are their ears. However, there is still one more human sense that no one can copy as of yet, that is the sense of smell.
C2Sense, is a company who wants to change that. They have tried to come up with a small chip that they said to essentially give the computers a sense of smell which can be used in the future to check and smell whether or not the food is ok or not.
While this device can detect the spoiling of food, it seems like it could be easy and not really a big deal yet for everyone but it is actually more important than one might think. For example, when a piece of fruit begins to rot, it releases a gas called ethylene. When other fruits in the basket are exposed to this gas, they begin to ripen much quicker than usual and they also release ethylene themselves.
This new technology is able to trace and detect the amounts of ethylene that humans would be unable to smell which makes them unable to detect the spoiling of food earlier before it fully spoils. This technology can be a big deal for some businesses especially fruit vendors or supermarkets that can let them know and pinpoint exactly which piece of fruit needs to be thrown into the garbage before it affects the others.
Jan Schnorr the counder and CTO of C2Sense said that the goal is to make chips cheap enough to be built into product packaging or implement into grocery bags without customers having to pay extra at checkout. The chips could then alert users when food goes off. The chips could also be built into Internet-of-Things devices like smart refrigerators and so on.
