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Still pretty silly that our phones don't have artificial noses on them for at least things like Carbon Monoxide and other easy to detect noxious gases. I am re
by goldenkey 6y ago
Still pretty silly that our phones don't have artificial noses on them for at least things like Carbon Monoxide and other easy to detect noxious gases.
I am really glad Apple put an EKG into their Apple Watch without being prompted by competition. Many people have been helped immensely by discovering underlying heart conditions through it.
- lostgame 6y agoI have minor heart issues and I can honestly say I feel much, much safer wearing my Apple Watch around than without. It doubles as a medic-alert bracelet! I’m deathly allergic to penicillin, so again; simple things like that are just core parts of my life now.
- krisoft 6y ago"I am really glad Google put an EKG into their Apple Watch without being prompted by competition." I'm confused. Which company put what in which product?
- goldenkey 6y agoApple I meant, just fixed it. Mind slip, thanks for alerting me.
- jfengel 6y agoRight now an artificial nose is kind of a big device, about the size of a microwave oven or bigger. [1] You could build much smaller devices to detect particular molecules, but even a CO detector is about the size of your thumb. And it would take quite a lot of such devices to even begin to describe a real smell. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography%E2%80%93mass_spectrometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography%E2%80%93mas...
- sithadmin 6y agoInterestingly, some Apple devices are (inadvertent) helium detectors: https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/31/helium-bricks-iphone-apple-watch/ https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/31/helium-bricks-iphone-apple-wa...
- leephillips 6y agoThat’s an interesting story. It sounds like a mass hallucination until you learn the physical reason for the phenomenon.