Whisky tasting using a bimetallic nanoplasmonictongue
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/nr/c9nr04583j
They built a cheap device that can taste any whisky and tell you if it is genuine. They only chose whisky because it's Glasgow Uni and they knew that would make headlines here, it'd work with anything. The principle is it compares a map of known characteristics to a new substance, so in their press release they call it a 'tongue'.
We have trained dogs that sniff out diseases such as cancer more accurately than cheap devices can, indeed one Perth woman can sniff Parkinson's better than any cheap diagnostic device. My first manager started up a medical diagnostics electronics firm nearly thirty years ago, and I regret not going with him. Not that he made a lot of money, he had a few failed 'tricorder' type products, but because the field is so fertile today.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
