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by 99_00 1588 days ago
I had no idea there was an e-nose project out there. Is e-nose a field with active research or is it something that's seen as being just too hard/cross disciplinary?

I see robust e-nose as being a huge development that would change how we see the world.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_nose see the citations for real-world examples (and a lot of PR fluff).

Did you ever measure a smell? Can you tell whether one smell is just twice strong as another? Can you measure the difference between two kinds of smell and another? It is very obvious that we have very many different kinds of smells, all the way from the odour of violets and roses up to asafetida. But until you can measure their likeness and differences, you can have no science of odour. If you are ambitious to find a new science, measure a smell.

— Alexander Graham Bell, 1914