Comments on: Nanotech device mimics dog’s nose to detect explosives http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanotech-device-mimics-dogs-nose-to-detect-explosives Accelerating Intelligence Thu, 23 May 2013 21:58:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: GatorALLin http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanotech-device-mimics-dogs-nose-to-detect-explosives/comment-page-1#comment-55619 GatorALLin Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:31:30 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=171894#comment-55619 ...Yes if the drug is illegal, then of course they could sniff for pot or crack or a dozen other things... and Yes at the airport you may get an extra screening if you pop up on the drug hit....but as long as you don't have anything in your pockets you should be fine. Just don't fly from CO, or Alaska without checking your pockets first... I can't tell you how many times after a great camping trip and pop back on the flight home I have a pocket knife on me as I walk up the the screening line... (don't try and mail anything illegal back to yourself....but I have mailed a pocket knife back to myself more than once when my checked-in bags were already gone). I guess if your thinking more along the fear of big brother lines... these sniffers would go way beyond terrorism threats at airports...and become drug sniffers along any place they can get close to you (park bench maybe?). Maybe move to CO, or use only in your house.... just don't light up at the airport please.... …Yes if the drug is illegal, then of course they could sniff for pot or crack or a dozen other things… and Yes at the airport you may get an extra screening if you pop up on the drug hit….but as long as you don’t have anything in your pockets you should be fine. Just don’t fly from CO, or Alaska without checking your pockets first… I can’t tell you how many times after a great camping trip and pop back on the flight home I have a pocket knife on me as I walk up the the screening line… (don’t try and mail anything illegal back to yourself….but I have mailed a pocket knife back to myself more than once when my checked-in bags were already gone). I guess if your thinking more along the fear of big brother lines… these sniffers would go way beyond terrorism threats at airports…and become drug sniffers along any place they can get close to you (park bench maybe?). Maybe move to CO, or use only in your house…. just don’t light up at the airport please….

]]> By: Razor http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanotech-device-mimics-dogs-nose-to-detect-explosives/comment-page-1#comment-55458 Razor Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:42:01 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=171894#comment-55458 *Buys shares* *Buys shares*

]]> By: David Ish Shalom http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanotech-device-mimics-dogs-nose-to-detect-explosives/comment-page-1#comment-55345 David Ish Shalom Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:31:03 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=171894#comment-55345 But I can see one big handicape if this technology. If it used to sniffs canabis, the most important medicine nature has given us and is therefore persecuted by the pharma industry and their colaborators the DEA and the US police etc. Crazy America will be staffed its jails with innocent people. But I can see one big handicape if this technology. If it used to sniffs canabis, the most important medicine nature has given us and is therefore persecuted by the pharma industry and their colaborators the DEA and the US police etc. Crazy America will be staffed its jails with innocent people.

]]> By: GatorALLin http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanotech-device-mimics-dogs-nose-to-detect-explosives/comment-page-1#comment-55306 GatorALLin Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:16:46 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=171894#comment-55306 Very cool... to see this technology advancing.... I have heard of dogs that sniff and respond to people just before they have a seizure or sniff people for smells that could be related to cancer or being sick before they show up as lumps on an Xray. Another example of where war pushes forward technology advancements.... lets hope this same technology for the war on terror can also be used to advance medicine and other positive things. (not that sniffing out bombs is such a bad thing....). ...so how does this system stay clean so it can take in lots of perfume like smells or coffee that masks other scents ? ...I can see if they get the price down then they can put this sniffer at every door and every escalator and every baggage contact connected to a camera system to alert security at the first sniff of boom. Very cool… to see this technology advancing…. I have heard of dogs that sniff and respond to people just before they have a seizure or sniff people for smells that could be related to cancer or being sick before they show up as lumps on an Xray. Another example of where war pushes forward technology advancements…. lets hope this same technology for the war on terror can also be used to advance medicine and other positive things. (not that sniffing out bombs is such a bad thing….).
…so how does this system stay clean so it can take in lots of perfume like smells or coffee that masks other scents ?

…I can see if they get the price down then they can put this sniffer at every door and every escalator and every baggage contact connected to a camera system to alert security at the first sniff of boom.

]]> By: Gorden Russell http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanotech-device-mimics-dogs-nose-to-detect-explosives/comment-page-1#comment-55226 Gorden Russell Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:14:52 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=171894#comment-55226 We've been talking about this all along, haven't we? Now if they put one of these onto the "Big Dog" robot from Boston Dynamics, they can save the lives of our people in Afghanistan. We’ve been talking about this all along, haven’t we? Now if they put one of these onto the “Big Dog” robot from Boston Dynamics, they can save the lives of our people in Afghanistan.

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