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Comment by spondylosaurus

I scoured their website to look for any clues about how it might (allegedly) work and got a fat lot of nothing.

> Rest constantly monitors room air quality, using a proprietary algorithm to pinpoint any tobacco, marijuana, or nicotine presence.

So a smoke detector with an "algorithm" attached. Uh huh. How does that algorithm work?

> By analyzing various factors and patterns[...]

Some cutting edge shit here!

And as for accuracy, they don't even pretend to make promises about "99.99% success rates" or anything. This is the most detailed they get:

> Q: Is it accurate?

> A: Our sophisticated smoking detection algorithm has been tested for accuracy in real-world scenarios, backed by years of development, and tens of thousands of hours of rigorous testing and validation.

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