Ahura Scientific Has a Nose for Chemicals

While doing research for another post, I came across a company by the name of Ahura Scientific. Get this, these guys make a device called the TrueDefender which is able to instantly sniff out any type of unknown chemical. In other words, this hand held unit has multiple military and civilian applications, for instance, it can be used in airport security to identify materials used to bring down a jetliner, or at the scene of a 100 car freight train derailment with multiple payloads that when co-mingled, create a toxic ring within a given area. Ahura can even make sure that the right mix of chemicals has been used to whip up your Jimmy Legs meds for the pharmaceutical industry.

According to Douglas Kahn, Ahura Scientifics’ CEO, this fantastic little device was developed by his outfit after a failed telecom play forced the Wilmington Massachusetts firm to huddle up and rethink its strategy post 9/11. Prior to the development of the TrueDefender, chemical analysis was an exhausting process restricted to the lab. Obviously, 4 Army Rangers embedded in the mountains of Afghanistan aren’t going to have a chemical analysis lab at their beck and call, but they should be carrying a sniffer from Ahura Scientific.

This leads me to my point

I don’t know how crowded this space is, but this is bleeding edge technology and if I were running DARPA I would have sucked these guys up 5 years ago and put them in a nondescript industrial park along the Washington D.C. Beltway to concentrate on making these things on a large scale, as in ships coming into port large!

Which come to think of it, they may very well be working on since they have plenty of grey matter on board, a third of the of the workforce wear lab coats to work every day in the R&D department. They’re also sitting on 35 patents granted and pending. They have a cool motto; “provide rapid decision making under pressure.” Maybe we can get these guys to give a unit to George Bush since he has never been able to make any type of rapid decision under pressure. Sorry, it’s election season and the line just wrote itself. Point is, when you don’t have time to wait for the bomb sniffing dogs, Ahura Scientific comes to the rescue! Good work guys!