In all seriousness, we will eventually be able to do a lot of health diagnostics with technology like this. The applications mentioned in the article are frankly not very imaginative. Finding TNT: cool. Finding cancer early: amazing.
Next time you go to the doctors, they hand you a screw-top specimin container and gesture towards the bathroom for you to fart in it so they can send it off to the lab for analysis.
Or better yet they just point something at you that looks like a big microphone and then make that hand-flappy wafting-the-vapors gesture in front of it and say “go ahead anytime…”
scarabic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
In all seriousness, we will eventually be able to do a lot of health diagnostics with technology like this. The applications mentioned in the article are frankly not very imaginative. Finding TNT: cool. Finding cancer early: amazing.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Next time you go to the doctors, they hand you a screw-top specimin container and gesture towards the bathroom for you to fart in it so they can send it off to the lab for analysis.
scarabic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Or better yet they just point something at you that looks like a big microphone and then make that hand-flappy wafting-the-vapors gesture in front of it and say “go ahead anytime…”
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
They call him: “Stinky Mike”