Breath

​​These days there are a quite a few high-tech ways to keep our oral hygiene in check. Mint is the latest connected solution to hit bathrooms and beyond and is said to detect signs of gum disease and poor oral hygiene on your breath in the space of a few seconds.​

Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics is creating what may be a solution to the dry air of airliner cabins, in the form of personal rings of moist air for each passenger.​

The latest scientists to start sniffing around breath analysis as a form of medical diagnosis is a team from the University of Adelaide, who are developing a laser instrument inspired by dogs' noses that can screen samples for signs of disease.

If you want to get a picture of wild dolphin populations' health, it's typically necessary to capture some of the animals and then obtain blood samples or skin biopsies. Soon, however, it may be possible to gather the same information using a device that samples their breath.

There are all sorts of innovative apps available to help improve our health and wellbeing, but one new app in particular is a breath of fresh air. Zenytime pairs with a sensor that allows users to control its games with their breathing. It is aimed at reducing stress and improving wellbeing.

For people with disabilities that affect their ability to speak, communicating with others can be very difficult. A new device known as Talk, however, is designed to help such people to do so. It senses dots and dashes made by the person using their breath, in order to spell out words.

SandPiper is a lung monitor aimed at those with respiratory ailments and is designed as a cheaper alternative to conventional lung monitoring devices. The T-shaped flow meter plugs into the headphone jack on both Android and iOS devices and measures the volume of air moving through the tube.

A link has been made between the abnormal breathing patterns experienced while sleeping at altitudes higher than 2,500 m (8,200 ft) and the symptoms of altitude sickness, particularly headaches. The finding could lead to potential treatments to combat altitude sickness.

Researchers have developed a portable sensor that analyzes a person's breath to detect if their body is burning fat. Its creators say the device could let users know if that exercise regime is actually working and help diabetics and those trying to lose weight manage their daily diet.

A pair of odor-detecting robots will inform you in no uncertain terms whether you have bad breath or smelly feet.

Swiss researchers are using mass spectrometry to analyze breath samples in human health tests.

Scientists are developing a test to determine a person's stress levels by analyzing their breath.