Posted by Anna on September 17, 2009 ·
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a device which is being touted as an artificial nose. In the research publish this month in Nature Chemistry, the device can ‘smell’ noxious gases and identify hazardous chemicals like hydrogen cyanide in less than two minutes and with high accuracy.
The research was led by Kenneth Suslick [...]
Posted by Carlos on August 18, 2009 ·
Kenneth Suslick of the University of Illinois and others have been working on a groundbreaking technology which would allow you to taste food without using your tongues in the real sense. They are working on what is being touted as the artificial tongue.
The world’s first electronic tongue converts the chemical properties of what we eat into a [...]