Sunday, April 20, 2008

Bee Chamber
















I found this really impressive and innovative way to detect and diagnose certain illnesses. Designed by Susana Soares, this glass chamber contains bees...yes, bees. They are known for their phenomenal odor-sensing capacity. How it works: The face object has two chambers, the larger one serves as the bee chamber, and the smaller one serves as the diagnosis chamber.  Bees trained to target and specific odor in the breath, a marker of a particular illness or condition, will fly into the smaller chamber. How amazing it this? The bees have the ability to detect pre-ovulation, ovulation and post-ovulation. I think that this is another clever way to use and build off of another species ability. 

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