Just in Time
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
278 points (97.6% liked)
Technology
73698 readers
3411 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I know it was a joke, but honestly covid will be a concern for a long time so having this technology is yeah, actually good.
Perspective: ready for the next pandemic with some tuning!
High quality sarcasm.
This is fantastic, the downside of course, if the general population being taught by their governments that COVID isn't to be feared, but lived with, and most importantly "worked through". The capitalist system doesn't function without it's workers, and the corporations don't want anything disrupting their bottom line, including covid mitigations, which is why you see Right Wing nutjobs telling everyone that COVID is over, and there was nothing to fear in the first place, while in the span of 12 months over One Million Americans died. Corporations, aided by the Right Wing bigots, don't want COVID air detectors anywhere, as they would invariably detect COVID. Reminds me of that movie where the king said to save arrows, and send in the infantry, because arrows cost money, and people cost nothing.
The detectors don’t change anything about the governments sacrificing the populations' health though. They’re back to work with no restrictions in any case.
Right, but as soon as you have a device that conveniently reduces a risk to a positive/negative signal, you introduced liability.
This tech won't just die, it will be intentionally killed.
Though it is just a detector, not a purifier. So all it really does tell you that someone in the room has Covid.
Do we all just do the Spiderman pointing meme when the detector goes off?
Still when it detects something it can make other ventilation or filters go to high. When the room is safe run the fans low power and noise. When there is something screw that.
Or we have a waiting room in dentists/doctors offices, etc with these devices?
Depends on how many people are in the waiting room, I suppose. I've been in a doctor's waiting room with 30 people before.
Reminds me of when UVA was testing whole dorm buildings sewage outlet for COVID and would lock the whole thing down if it were positive.
To be clear, I would love to have this in my home, just to know.
Very cool and useful.
Now watch it fade into oblivion because everyone is DoNe WiTH CoViD
I don’t think it isn’t just for covid. Well, currently it is, but with a few changes it could detect something else too.
“The device is equipped with a biosensor that does two things. First it takes advantage of tiny molecules obtained from llamas that stick exceptionally well to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 to pull out any virus that might be present. Next, an electric current is passed through the biosensor and causes oxidation of a specific amino acid in the spike protein, the final reaction that verifies the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.“
So let’s say a new pandemic emerges, and we find out which proteins to use for identifying it. Why not modify the biosensor’s special molecule so that the device can detect whatever it is that happens to be bothering the world at that time. I think this detector has great potential.
As someone with immunocompromised family members this is great. I suspect this would be like an air quality alert in your area.
I imagine a text message could be available for your airport letting you know that Covid levels are high, allowing you to reschedule your flight or change your plans.
view more: next ›