Your smartphone can detect rotten produce thanks to MIT

Your smartphone will soon be able to detect gases and pollutants, thanks to a simple sensor recently developed by chemists in MIT. The sensor known as CARD can be used in many different ways. For example, the sensor can be installed in a special device that could detect food spoilage in warehouses and monitor public establishments. Other gases that can be detected by the sensor include cyclohexanone, hydrogen peroxide, and gaseous ammonia among others. The sensor is cheap so anyone can easily use it. Gather a few sensors and they can help read whatever your want to detect. It doesn’t have any wiring at all so expect powerless and wireless detection according to Chemistry Professor Timothy Swager at MIT. “You can get quite imaginative as to what you might want to do with a technology like this,” he said.