Mobile that smells danger

FROM eye and fingerprint recognition to voice control and contactless payments, there doesn’t appear to be much that mobile phones can’t do.

But engineers at a tiny British tech firm have left the world’s mobile giants standing – by creating one that can smell.

Bullitt, which specialises in super-robust phones for tradesmen, claims its Cat S61 is able to detect air pollutants. It says its sensors will alert users when dangerous gases reach hazardous levels.

The model, priced at £799, will also have a thermal-imaging sensor and a laser that can measure building sites. It will be unveiled this weekend at the Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona. Bullitt was founded in Reading in 2009 by Colin Batt, David Floyd and Richard Wharton.