Your smartphone may soon be able to identify and analyze scent as easily as it scans a QR code or recognizes a voice. An Israeli company, Nanoscience, has developed an electronic nose that can detect odors and flavors through a smartphone, The Times of Israel has reported.
According to the co-founders Oren Gavriely and Eran Rom of the Haifa-based startup, Nanoscience is now developing a smartphone app that, that will incorporate a chip called a “scent recorder,” to facilitate the objective of identifying and analyzing scents. Currently, the sensor exists separately from the smartphone.
The core technology behind Nanoscience was invented by Hossam Haick (above), a professor at Israel Institute of Technology.
Image credit: Nanoscience via The Times of Israel
The sensor is made up of nanoparticles and emits different signals based on the smell it is exposed to. The system can determine users’ scent profile and help them select products, such as cosmetics, perfumes, and soaps. The technology uses the interactions between the sensor and the chemical substances emitted from our body to generate a distinct pattern, or fingerprint, for each scent. It then uses this data to train its algorithm to identify different kinds of smells.
“Combining scent with technological innovation is something that hasn’t yet been explored or fully realized,” said Gavriely. Albeit our sense of smell strongly impacts how we think, feel and remember, it’s not a part of the existing ecosystem of smartphone devices, which use voice activation, facial recognition, and motion detection to enhance our lives, Gavriely said.
The core technology behind Nanoscience was invented by Hossam Haick, a professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Nanoscience noted that as an extra bonus, the technology might also help jump-start your love life. Integrating scent recognition technology into devices such as smartphones can help to us to find solutions to many human problems, the company said.
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