Every day we have something new invented for the mobile phones. All the changes in the mobile phone industry are due to the advanced research in this field. Recently the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) Science and Technology directorate announced that the organization has started funding a unique project through with the cell phones will be able to detect different chemicals.

The technology is called chemical sniff technology and is given the name “Cell-All initiative”. According to S&T it is still pursuing corporate research and development agreement with four of the top mobile manufacturing companies. These companies include Apple, Samsung, LG and Qualcomm. S&T is looking forward more towards Apple iPhone because iPhone has wide range of patents on some of its innovations. It feels that Apple gives more room to technological innovations. This technology will detect different chemicals including carbon monoxide and other pungent chemicals. S&T is looking forward to bring 40 such mobile phones by the end of this year. S&T has a support of Qualcomm, NASA and Rhevision Technology who are working with it on various areas to make the technology exist. Qualcomm is working on the concept to bring it into the market whereas NASA and Rhevision are working on the technology i.e. NASA on chemical sensing piece and Rhevision on artificial nose which changes colors when it senses certain molecules.

The Cell-All initiative technology will ring an alarm like sound when it will detect the presence of any kind of harmful chemical. The technology will work as anti-virus software which will come to life under the existence of a chemical or smoke.

You might be thinking about the uses of this technology. According to S&T apart from detecting smoke and chemicals it will be helpful in detecting bombs in future. It will then be able to send an emergency alert automatically to the operating center of the technology. This will help prevent a lot of dangers to the humanity and mankind from terrorism.