iPhone users wondering whether their wine
or breath have gone bad may soon have
help from a chip designed to identify
nearby aromas and flavors.
Adamant Technologies has created a
processor for iPhones that "can take the
sense of smell and taste and digitize them,"
Adamant founder and CEO Sam Khamis tells
Business Insider. Khamis says his
company's product is fairly sophisticated,
employing roughly 2,000 sensors to
identify smells compared with the about
400 sensors in the average human nose.
The San Francisco startup, which is backed
by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, has
begun producing chips at a factory in
Austin, Texas, and expects to release apps
for the chips in a year or two. It also plans
to manufacture a device that will plug in to
the iPhone and use a variety of apps,
including one that will warn users when
their breath is not as fresh as they would
like.
"Halitosis, or bad breath tracking, is
something we're really interested in,"
Khamis said, adding that the app will
notifying users of bad breath and indicate
what caused the condition. Other planned
apps will test blood sugar for diabetics and
measure blood-alcohol levels.
Giving computers greater sensitivity to
their surroundings has attracted more
attention lately. IBM unveiled a chip in
2011 designed to mimic the human brain's
perception, cognitive, sensation,
interaction, and action abilities. IBM
envisions its cognitive computing chips
could be used for a variety of purposes,
such as determining whether supermarket
produce had spoiled or detecting
http://m.cnet.com/news/new-smartphone-chip-to-help-owners-identify-smells-tastes/57562300

[quote author=J-LANCE] adding that the app will
notifying users of bad breath and indicate
what caused the condition.[/qoute]
hope the app will also notify users of smelly fart and indicate what caused the condition too

^^^
haha