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This man is teaching computers to smell

Hearing and vision have already been digitized. But not smell. So Alex Wiltschko, a former Google researcher, launched a start-up to address this gap. Osmo breaks down smells into digital signatures, converting atomic structures into ‘bits’ that form a unique odour map. It can detect smells to a high degree of accuracy, across a range of items.

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