A few interesting tidbits from the IEN news that I received today
Link to videos:
https://www.ien.com/product-development/video/20988338/boeing-unveils-huge-autonomous-cargo-copter
Boeing Unveils Huge Autonomous Cargo Copter
It's an 18-foot wide UAV. Also, handheld nose spots fake booze and battle robots settle lube feud.
Handheld Nose Can Smell Fake Booze
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a handheld nose for sniffing out fake booze.
Luckily, this isn't a huge issue here in the U.S. At worst, we have a few hobbyists making moonshine, but that is primarily for private use. If they mess up, they're blinding themselves, and maybe a few close relatives around the holidays.
However, fake alcohol has had serious global health implications from China and Russia to the UK and beyond, even leading to several high-profile deaths at Mexican resorts. Typically, these moonshiners mess up the manufacturing process which leads to a high level of methanol, that's one of them that will blind you, or kill you.
The researchers designed a portable device that includes an advanced sensor array that can identify liquors and determine if they'd been altered. It has a disposable sensor with 36 dyes that change color when exposed to liquor vapor. An image analyzer takes two minutes to process the color changes.
The researchers have been able to identify the alcoholic content and brand of 14 different liquors with greater than 99 percent accuracy.
What may have U.S.-based booze barons shaking in their boots is that the proof-of-concept was also able to determine if the liquor was watered down, even by as little as 1 percent.
Link to videos:
https://www.ien.com/product-development/video/20988338/boeing-unveils-huge-autonomous-cargo-copter
Boeing Unveils Huge Autonomous Cargo Copter
It's an 18-foot wide UAV. Also, handheld nose spots fake booze and battle robots settle lube feud.
Handheld Nose Can Smell Fake Booze
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a handheld nose for sniffing out fake booze.
Luckily, this isn't a huge issue here in the U.S. At worst, we have a few hobbyists making moonshine, but that is primarily for private use. If they mess up, they're blinding themselves, and maybe a few close relatives around the holidays.
However, fake alcohol has had serious global health implications from China and Russia to the UK and beyond, even leading to several high-profile deaths at Mexican resorts. Typically, these moonshiners mess up the manufacturing process which leads to a high level of methanol, that's one of them that will blind you, or kill you.
The researchers designed a portable device that includes an advanced sensor array that can identify liquors and determine if they'd been altered. It has a disposable sensor with 36 dyes that change color when exposed to liquor vapor. An image analyzer takes two minutes to process the color changes.
The researchers have been able to identify the alcoholic content and brand of 14 different liquors with greater than 99 percent accuracy.
What may have U.S.-based booze barons shaking in their boots is that the proof-of-concept was also able to determine if the liquor was watered down, even by as little as 1 percent.
