Homeland Security Wants Cellphones to Sniff Toxic Chemicals

Release Date ‎Apr 12, 2010‎ in Wired News

 
   

Homeland Security Wants Cellphones to Sniff Toxic Chemicals

Wired News - Katie Drummond - ‎Apr 12, 2010‎
Your cellphone can already tell you where to find the nearest Starbucks or the most convenient subway station. But it might soon be smart ...

Smart phone 'nose' would detect toxic gases

CBC.ca - ‎Apr 12, 2010‎
Your smart phone may soon be able to act as a second â€" albeit much more sophisticated â€" nose. A smart phone that detects toxic chemicals in the air has been ...

Homeland Security Wants Poison-Sniffing Cell Phones

FOXNews - David Murphy - ‎Apr 12, 2010‎
Your cell phone might soon become its own canary. The Department of Homeland Security wants to create cell phones that can detect toxic ...

Feds seek to sniff out toxic chemicals with cellphones

NetworkWorld.com - Bob Brown - 14 Apr, 2010
By Alpha Doggs on Tue, 04/13/10 - 1:59pm. The Department of Homeland Security is working with vendors such as Apple and Qualcomm to foster development of ...

Homeland Security to Develop Cell Phones That 'Smell' Poisonous Gas

Prison Planet.com - Caleb Johnson - 14 Apr, 2010
The US Department of Homeland Security wants to make us into walking poison detectors. According to Physorg, as part of a program called Cell-All, ...

DHS wants smartphones to get smarter with chemical sniffers

Tnooz (blog) - Dennis Schaal - 14 Apr, 2010
The US Dept. of Homeland Security wants to enlist your smartphone â€" on a voluntary basis â€" in the war on terror. The DHS is funding research into whether it ...

DHS funding development of chemical sniffing mobile phones

FierceMobileIT - ‎Apr 13, 2010‎
FierceMobileIT provides tools, tips and case studies on how to deploy the latest wireless technologies in the enterprise. Join 37000+ CIOs and senior IT ...

Chemical Detector in Your Cell Phone

Enviro.BLR.com - ‎Apr 13, 2010‎
Cell phones that sniff out dangerous airborne chemicals, alert the phone owner, and automatically call in the identity of the chemical, its location, ...

How your cell phone could protect you from a deadly chemical attack

SmartPlanet.com (blog) - Christina Hernandez - ‎Apr 13, 2010‎
Sure, a smartphone can take photos, automatically update email messages, stream live video and even provide ...

Future smartphones might be able to sniff out toxic chemicals

Ecofriend (blog) - ‎Apr 13, 2010‎
Today smartphones follow a Swiss-Army-Knife trend that integrates several smart features, like cameras, MP3 players, GPS, Wi-Fi and even a bar code scanner ...

Cell Phones Soon To Sniff Out Deadly Chemicals

Gadget Review (blog) - Chris Gullo - ‎Apr 12, 2010‎
On average, you and most readers of this site own a cellphone, and that phone does a billion things in addition to making calls. But what if they could also ...

Homeland Security Developing Smartphone Tech That Sniffs Deadly Chemicals

Inhabitat (blog) - Ariel Schwartz - ‎Apr 12, 2010‎
Recently we reported that US Department of Homeland Security and Cell-All had developed a chemical-sniffing iPhone add-on that ...

DHS Wants to Turn Cell Phones Into Chemical Sensors

Security Management - Matthew Harwood - ‎Apr 12, 2010‎
On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) announced it has begun to fund its Cell-All ...

Crowdsourcing cell phones to detect chemicals

R & D Magazine - ‎Apr 12, 2010‎
Do you carry a cell phone? Today, chances are it's called a "smartphone" and it came with a three-to-five megapixel lens built-inâ€"not to mention an MP3 ...

Air-Sniffing Cellphones Could Aid Chemical-Warfare Defense

TechNewsWorld - Katherine Noyes - 14 Apr, 2010
A sensor in your cellphone could alert you to a toxic leak in your immediate vicinity -- or it could alert government officials to a ...

Future iPhone Could Gain Sense Of Smell

InformationWeek - Thomas Claburn - ‎Apr 12, 2010‎
The Department of Homeland Security wants Apple, LG, Qualcomm, and Samsung to make phones to fight chemical terrorism. By Thomas Claburn In about a year, ...

 

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