Apply HN: Eat My Dust - Home testing for dangerous materials

Re:Apply HN: Eat My Dust - Home testing for dangerous materials by davidw on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:15PM (#11456695)

I'd look into/think about: what happens when the kit does not detect something that then causes harm to someone.

Is that likely? Could it happen? What might happen legally?

I'd likely consider buying something like that, though, if it were cheap.

Something that would be positive: testing for 'unknown unknowns' - people are becoming more conscious of things like radon, but if this test were likely to pick up a wide range of random stuff, it'd be more useful.

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Re:Apply HN: Eat My Dust - Home testing for dangerous materials by hagope on Friday April 08, 2016 @09:40PM (#11459463)

Exactly, I don't know what's in the air we're breathing or what my 1.5 yr old daughter is ingesting after playing on the floor and eating with her hands

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Re:Apply HN: Eat My Dust - Home testing for dangerous materials by pavel_lishin on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:19PM (#11456728)

If it's an unknown, how do you test for it?

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Re:Apply HN: Eat My Dust - Home testing for dangerous materials by davidw on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:23PM (#11456761)

I mean that it's something most people might not think to test for, not truly unknown.

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Re:Apply HN: Eat My Dust - Home testing for dangerous materials by rdrey on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:40PM (#11456864)

It could just test for many things and the "data science" could do some anomaly detection.

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Re:Apply HN: Eat My Dust - Home testing for dangerous materials by eggman on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:59PM (#11456990)

like asymptomatic disease...

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