• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    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.

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      2 hours ago

      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

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        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.

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          1 hour ago

          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