Global Technology – June 2012

Now let’s focus on this month’s most important advances in technology.  We’ll begin with a breakthrough in sensing technology.

Chemical sensors are exceedingly good at detecting a single substance or a class of chemicals, even at highly rarified concentrations.  Biological noses are vastly more versatile and capable of discriminating subtle cues that would confound their man-made counterparts.

However, even the most highly trained biological noses are limited by ambiguity when it comes to relaying a signal, and they are not part.....