You know what also has hundreds of millions of years of development in detecting what’s gone bad, and costs you nothing?! Your actual nose! It’s also almost certainly better than this product. Just smell your food. It’ll tell you when something has gone bad. The date on it, or anything else, doesn’t.
Yeah, I did think about including that in my comment as a caveat, but it’s obvious enough. This could be a good product for a very tiny number of people. There’s going to be an attempt to sell it to the average person though, and the average person should ignore it.
It might make sense for industrial applications, where they can use it to tell if something has gone off before shipping it out, or having someone sniff all the food.
Average people will ignore it until economy of scale kicks in
Even if it doesn’t do shit if it is cheap enough people will buy it
And only when abundant enough will people start messing with the tech and rebel against it’s premise by doing new things that hadn’t been conceived before
Maybe parkinson’s could be smelt by it
Or maybe someone smells the moon with one
We might start sniffing black holes next and find out we have a wagging tailbone and then realise
This is so stupid. We can talk about things that would only benefit a tiny number of people without mentioning them every time. This comment is like saying “talking about eating pork is antisemitic.” No it isn’t. It isn’t ableist to not mention something. Ableist is a specific hatred against otherly-abled/disabled/whatever term people.
You know what also has hundreds of millions of years of development in detecting what’s gone bad, and costs you nothing?! Your actual nose! It’s also almost certainly better than this product. Just smell your food. It’ll tell you when something has gone bad. The date on it, or anything else, doesn’t.
Top comment for me right now offers anosmia as a reason to want this kind of solution
You didn’t ask but the statement of facts implied you might see that as interesting and valid
Yeah, I did think about including that in my comment as a caveat, but it’s obvious enough. This could be a good product for a very tiny number of people. There’s going to be an attempt to sell it to the average person though, and the average person should ignore it.
It might make sense for industrial applications, where they can use it to tell if something has gone off before shipping it out, or having someone sniff all the food.
Average people will ignore it until economy of scale kicks in
Even if it doesn’t do shit if it is cheap enough people will buy it
And only when abundant enough will people start messing with the tech and rebel against it’s premise by doing new things that hadn’t been conceived before
Maybe parkinson’s could be smelt by it
Or maybe someone smells the moon with one
We might start sniffing black holes next and find out we have a wagging tailbone and then realise
Ableist comment.
This is so stupid. We can talk about things that would only benefit a tiny number of people without mentioning them every time. This comment is like saying “talking about eating pork is antisemitic.” No it isn’t. It isn’t ableist to not mention something. Ableist is a specific hatred against otherly-abled/disabled/whatever term people.