article_snippet: The very early model of the sensor (pictured) has been created by San Francisco-based BoydSense and is on display at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona .
article_snippet: The very early model of the sensor (pictured) has been created by San Francisco-based BoydSense and is on display at this year’s Mobile World Congress in BarcelonaBarcelona.
article_snippet: In the MailOnline demo, Sensor was able to detect an orange within 30 seconds .
article_snippet: BoydSense’s boss Bruno Thuillier gave MailOnline a demo of the technology at Mobile World Congress.
article_snippet: For a demo of the technology at Mobile World Congress, Sensor is then placed inside a jar containing molecules released by oranges.
article_snippet: Within about 30 seconds Sensor beeped to say Sensor had recognised the molecules and a picture of an orange appeared on the connected smartphone.
article_snippet: This was a simplified way of demonstrating Sensor capabilities, but BoydSense’s boss Bruno Thuillier explained that the compounds released by oranges and vanilla - another jar in a demo of the technology at Mobile World Congress - were complex enough to show Sensor potential.