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Mobile phones might detect chemical weapons
IT SOUNDS LIKE a James Bond scenario, but in the future you might be able to get hold of a mobile phone that is able to detect a chemical or biological weapons attack.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) apparently has started talks with four mobile phone companies on designing phones that can detect poisonous chemical compounds and alert a user.
Within a year it expects there to be 80 prototype mobiles that can be tested against different agents. What the DHS is looking for is to alert users to risks ranging from accidental gas leaks to poison gas terror attacks.
Such devices could also potentially help emergency services by feeding alerts to authorities so that those first on the scene could gather information from a large number of sources.
NASA is even involved, helping with sensing chemicals and using tech built to measure air quality in space. A tech being looked at is a silicon nose based on beetle shells, using silicon to mimic how a beetle's shell produces iridescence.
Silicon particles are given a sponge-like structure with the pores designed to recognise and sop up molecules of certain toxins, so that the man-made 'noses' could detect potential toxins.
Because of design issues, power drains and other questions, it might take a while for this tech to see the light of day. The DHS stressed that the technology would be optional in phones and any data transmissions would remain anonymous. µ
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@bigger_luddite
Yes, i know about the GPS in some phones,
but insisting that the government knows where you are 24/7 is too much too far at the moment (give it 10 years) but the soccor-mom brigade can make it very uncomfortable for everyone once the government "exlains" how these phones will solve all the worlds problems..
AKA "Lie until people believe it"
"authorities" can find your phone's location, besides turn on its microphone, any time its battery is up.
@ Johnno: if you're not being ironic, I dare you to *read* 1984. No other book has been so accurate about The Dystopian Future.
"How stupid can the American masses get"?
no more freedom for Johnno when his phone gives a false positive on an '99.9999% accurate' chem-warfare testing phone.
after the first false-flag operation you'll see.. this'll be mandatory..
I used to be liberal and not believe in things like this, The more i have dealt with government officials the more i believe that _all_ they care about is power, and keeping people scared is the best way to gain more power and keep it.
No more 1984 for ANON
First it shall be optional,
then it shall be 'advisable'
then it shall be 'mandatory'
and then, they start expanding what this nose looks for...
enjoy your black helicopter ride to gitmo, just because your phone thought it smelled semtex..
"think of the children" shall come the cry when you comment on the ability to arrest and detain for 4 months based on evidence gathered this way..
much simpler, put a sensor on each CCTV camera, no need for the government to have yet another excuse to infringe my right to privacy, before long we'll all have a camera in our houses and be told what we should say in newspeak..
double-plus good my backside!
I want a sonic screwdriver built into my phone!
I want a nuclear weapons detector too.