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no more having to assume who farted with this new app. It
detects who farted by saying "the person in front of you." or,
if you register names it could say the name of your dad, too.
viable mechanism:
Directional_20Fart_20Detector
Note the love this post received. I don't recall who (if anybody) I was talking to in the first few annos. [FlyingToaster, Dec 21 2011]
Directional olfaction
http://www.springer...t/g66xq24w11644772/
[mouseposture, Dec 21 2011]
[link]
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And on behalf of your dad.... "Hey!" |
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but *the person in front of you* may have the app that mis-directs gas/odours in artful ways... |
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I'm interested to know what you intend to do with this useful information anyway. |
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Welcome to the halfbakery [mlee5047] |
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You are obviously one of our younger contributors.... a more rewarding version of your idea would be one which detects the offending smell then loudly announces "who farted?" |
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Welcome to the HB, [mlee]! But yeah, the idea
needs some mechanism... |
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Farty Pants would be a much better idea. A meter in the back pocket would monitor the air escaping and announce *Farty Pants*! |
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<link> It's paywalled, unfortunately, but
it turns out there's a literature suggesting that
directional olfaction is possible, and occurs in
nature, based on differential arrival time at left
vs. right nostril, (Rabbits can detect a time
difference of less than 3 msec, apparently.) |
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Such a mechanism
would work best with a brief but intense odor
diffusing from a point source. Flatulence fits the
bill perfectly. To get position from direction,
you'd triangulate from
several
networked GPS'd devices positioned around the
room
(cellphones fit the bill perfectly). [+] Welcome
[mlee5047] |
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so in that case it would seem that rabbits nostrils (unlike ours) do not work one at a time. |
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If we accept, as we did in the playground, that he who smelled it dealt it, then this proposed app means that we will have reached the pinnacle of man's technological progress: a farting phone. |
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Great, that means it's all downhill from there. But if we're already below sea level, how much further down can we get? |
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I've trained mine to smell like roses, quite simple really once you've opened pathways of communication with your gut flora, so you will need a flower sniffing app to peg me as having dealt said flatulence. |
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