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Dogs can smell explosives like landmines, and detect medical conditions including seizures, diabetes, and many forms of cancer — with up to 98% accuracy. Inventor Andreas Mershin wants to replicate that — and put a nose in every cell phone. WIRED’s Emily Dreyfuss spoke with Mershin to find out why that’s easier said than done,…

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  1. Vincent Gonzalez

    May 20, 2019 at 12:01 am

    the systems are already coded?

  2. darthkahn45

    May 20, 2019 at 12:40 am

    We really don’t deserve these gud bois and girls.?

  3. Meghan M.

    May 20, 2019 at 4:48 am

    Wait wait wait… Robots can smell?

  4. Alejandro Ortiz

    May 20, 2019 at 6:13 am

    Dogs are so cute

  5. ophello

    May 20, 2019 at 7:09 am

    He needs to apply machine learning and neural networks to this problem.

  6. Vito Burgundy

    May 20, 2019 at 10:51 am

    Sorry, but the guy needs subtitles for us to understand.

  7. Funny Videos - Funny Out Loud

    May 20, 2019 at 2:53 pm

    Just came here to save you 11 minutes of your life:
    *bigger nose*
    thank you

  8. AZ

    May 20, 2019 at 4:52 pm

    if Quintin Tarantino was a scientist – this is what he would be like – Legend

  9. Eduard Dawkrn

    May 20, 2019 at 5:15 pm

    53% of young people would rather loose their smell instead of a phone ? that is so dumb.. Are the young that dumb to choose to lose a irreplaceble gift instead of a phone that is easily replaced ?

  10. Eduard Dawkrn

    May 20, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    I really don’t get it where this chick took the 53% result of people rather lose their smell than phone but it sounds like a lie. People lying just to have a subject to go on about. maybe 53% of the young don’t have a phone what da fux

  11. bradley shefmire

    May 20, 2019 at 6:20 pm

    ….probably no $$ in cancer-sniffing dogs…..cutting into the profits….

  12. Maricelle Immelman

    May 20, 2019 at 6:58 pm

    I’d rather have a dog, tbh

  13. Selim T.

    May 20, 2019 at 7:53 pm

    good tech but annoying guy

  14. V S.

    May 20, 2019 at 10:23 pm

    This guy should smell some of this chronic I’m blazing lol

  15. HimKioo

    May 20, 2019 at 11:33 pm

    What about cats?

  16. Sam Toshner

    May 21, 2019 at 5:27 am

    I think he knows what cocaine smells like

  17. sillysallyceli

    May 21, 2019 at 5:47 am

    We need more in his research please!!!! So incredible

  18. Freesia Laxa

    May 21, 2019 at 11:40 am

    Saw a New Scientist article ages ago showing a relationship with loss of sense of smell and depression – so I wouldn’t be so sure about losing it over my phone…

  19. ali agudelo

    May 21, 2019 at 3:50 pm

    I love his last answer “The Human Body is Capable of doing so much but no one uses it” xD

  20. Foxtrot Oscar

    May 21, 2019 at 5:35 pm

    Fascinating. I can’t smell at all.

  21. danilov114

    May 21, 2019 at 9:47 pm

    What if dogs are just good at guessing?

  22. Rex Wort

    May 22, 2019 at 3:55 am

    *Cat:*
    I’m a famous Internet celebrity what do you do? ?
    *Dog:*
    Save lives ?

  23. Franco Isa

    May 22, 2019 at 7:13 am

    the stereo sound on this video …

  24. Pickle Von CrunchnMunch

    May 22, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    i know why! robots dont have noses!

  25. Glenn

    May 22, 2019 at 2:55 pm

    I don’t know, man, my dog smells pretty bad.

  26. Nas Guden

    May 22, 2019 at 7:53 pm

    This dude is on speed

  27. Marshall Kummer

    May 22, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    This is an Andy Richter I can get behind.

  28. wetdream23

    May 23, 2019 at 1:17 am

    2:00 lmao

  29. Blue Beta

    May 23, 2019 at 5:48 am

    Nah man, you ever see an android on cocaine.

  30. Kairo

    May 23, 2019 at 7:12 am

    Good doggo

  31. Frikkie Nel

    May 23, 2019 at 10:51 am

    Eyebrows is terrifying!

  32. Charles Brooksbank

    May 23, 2019 at 7:03 pm

    the guy reminds me of republikattak

  33. DATING HARLEY QUINN

    May 23, 2019 at 7:39 pm

    I have a springer spaniel – she can find my girlfriend anywhere in the city. She lives in an entirely smell based universe. It is her primary sensor.

  34. King Duke

    May 23, 2019 at 9:01 pm

    Whoever thought this was a good idea kys my mom can just look at her phone and get a notification that I’m smoking weed

  35. Matthias Debernardini

    May 23, 2019 at 9:42 pm

    Audio was terrible

  36. Coconut219

    May 24, 2019 at 2:53 am

    “Just give it to me straight doctor.’
    – *’WOOF!’*

  37. DaGoofSta

    May 24, 2019 at 4:44 am

    “We built a nose now we know how a nose works” uhhh we have always known how it works bud

  38. Joshua Brooks

    May 24, 2019 at 5:50 am

    In the future, governments will have an exact record of your smell that they got through your phone, and they’ll be able to send robots with supercanine smell to find you. At least we’ll probably only have to live through a few years of that before AI goes rogue and kills us all by changing our atmosphere because they realized all that oxygen was inconveniencing them in some way.

  39. Connor Coulson

    May 24, 2019 at 7:25 am

    I had to stop, this guy was too scary.

  40. pdelmo79

    May 24, 2019 at 10:51 am

    WD-40

  41. Alexander Wingeskog

    May 24, 2019 at 12:48 pm

    It seems like you need to train a (sort of) neural network type of AI (giant computing power size) for 2-3 years by sniffing around and then really hone it on what “function” you are after.

  42. Caparzo Sorci

    May 24, 2019 at 4:34 pm

    3:55 Dog: I think I smell cancer! (Sniff, sniff)… Human! This way!!

  43. gladys susana romero

    May 24, 2019 at 5:51 pm

    Then rats could make it even better?

  44. Sokrates297

    May 24, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    I love this guy 😛

  45. Ty coon

    May 24, 2019 at 7:46 pm

    howsabout not having a ginger do the interview

  46. Ty coon

    May 24, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    shoot that ginger in the face and get a brunet or an asian

  47. Marc D

    May 24, 2019 at 11:45 pm

    What about the privacy concerns raised by cheap artificial noses? Is anyone speaking to what will be lost? No more smuggling candy or popcorn into movie theaters, being the most benign instant use case which would suffer backlase. Mom’s could know if they’re kids are doing drugs just by clicking an Watchdog Smelling app.

  48. Reyna A

    May 25, 2019 at 2:53 am

    I just realized Wired is for educational purposes and not for entertainment

  49. Dr.Nug710

    May 25, 2019 at 7:01 am

    He said “good cancer” what exactly is “good cancer”

  50. Austin81

    May 25, 2019 at 8:44 am

    Im so sick of these skype call interview videos. its not good, stop it, just tell them to use a normal camera and talk to you on the phone on the side or something.

  51. Angelica Cushing

    May 25, 2019 at 12:36 pm

    I think our phones should be able to smell us and it should be added to Tinder.

    • Chase Gosney

      May 28, 2019 at 2:36 am

      gave me a chuckle thank you

  52. FurryEskimo

    May 25, 2019 at 4:16 pm

    I remember some old joke that joked that dogs didn’t actually have great smell, but people believed they did, so they pretended to be and were actually just physic or something.

  53. FurryEskimo

    May 25, 2019 at 4:20 pm

    My parents are so paranoid about our Alexa they won’t take it outside the kitchen. They don’t even use Siri. God only knows how paranoid they’d be of a phone that smells them. It’d be cool, and good luck, but lol, they’ll be so spooked.

  54. Qubnomil

    May 25, 2019 at 6:14 pm

    Then Google will sell your data and hike up the price of your meds — in real time. All while playing you ads.

  55. Mark Shull

    May 25, 2019 at 6:46 pm

    “The body can do incredible things. Do most of us use it? No.”

    Woah that hit me for some reason

  56. Uncharted Thoughts

    May 25, 2019 at 8:34 pm

    *Meanwhile my cat is somewhere in the neighborhood hitting some p*ssy…*

  57. JackStrait

    May 25, 2019 at 9:05 pm

    Cats don’t care if you have cancer

  58. Thea

    May 25, 2019 at 9:22 pm

    yOoo does anyone know what breed the dog in the thumbnail is ??

  59. Murad Indris

    May 26, 2019 at 3:51 am

    dogs know where the synthesized cancr scells should go, computers should study the dogs behavior to determine how the scells should be synthesized

  60. Murad Indris

    May 26, 2019 at 5:52 am

    the dogs intel is between the voice of the master and the math of the smell

  61. Don't sub or else

    May 26, 2019 at 6:10 am

    Simple. Because dogs are superior beings

  62. Destiny Fan

    May 26, 2019 at 12:44 pm

    Just some guy talking into a potato camera. No footage of dogs or anything.

  63. Hank Bishop

    May 26, 2019 at 5:51 pm

    Only clicked on this for the springer spaniel

  64. Red Planet

    May 26, 2019 at 7:46 pm

    Wow

  65. The Original Gamer

    May 26, 2019 at 9:06 pm

    Not my dog, my dog smells terrible.

  66. Maria Clara Amorim

    May 27, 2019 at 12:37 am

    So… Here is a little thought: how about looking at what each molecule makes the dog feel and then compare to what the dog feel after smelling cancer cells or something? Like, with how the dog feel I mean the area of the brain that lits up, of course…

  67. Andrew Vijay

    May 27, 2019 at 8:13 am

    I can’t stop laughing at this guy. Yet he’s so informative! Amazing 😀 😀

  68. Roselyn R.K

    May 27, 2019 at 1:15 pm

    1:30 What a precious boy

  69. Carl Ferguson

    May 27, 2019 at 5:05 pm

    *Insert smelloscope joke here*

  70. Soketzu Applesauce

    May 27, 2019 at 8:01 pm

    “Least false positive, least false negative” isn’t consistent with peer reviewed research

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