Hi Mr. Ganga and other folks,
I am one of the fellows working on this (a little). Its part of a multiple team collaboration consisting of many developers including my shop.
Electronic nose technology is pretty well established with many players in the field but its mostly tailored to NIH type or large corporate biotech projects tailored towards clinical research programs. Indigogo is an alternative outlet for funding RandD so I don't understand why you are so upset bout this. Its very difficult to get funding anywhere for RandD period and especially so for Cannabis so I don't get why you guys are hating so much when an attempt has been made this way.
Anyway check out pubmed (see there is alot of stuff going on in this space):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=electronic+nose
Again we are using the Indigogo campaign to support additional work by funding our partners who are developing the technology for other purposes. And we have data to show the proof of principle and we are working on disclosing this. But I totally agree I think its not cool it hasn't been presented at this point and I am sincerely sorry about this. I am complaining too actually.
But I am pretty sure its not going to work perfectly out of the box like most experimental assays. So I am too a bit of a skeptic. But I am in the biochip fabrication business and we have to try in the face of doubts so I agreed to collaborate and support this project based on extrinsic evidence showing the assay to be reasonable. We are actually designing the interface to track the experimental conditions (laboratory information management system -aka =LIMS) to understand how to error model this assay.
So why not try? I have done many many collaborations on worse thought through well funded research projects. So this one isnt' funded (except a little through Indigogo) and its an ok idea, let's give it a go.
Anyway we are trying our best to be transparent in what we do. I am sorry if you find the campaign misleading and we are hearing you and working on improving things.
Also we probably share many of the same values so why give us grief. If you don't like you don't have to support the project. And its really not your business if other people do.
So peace dude going forward we will just try our best to be as cool as possible. yes I am Richard Rouse I guess my parents like alliteration good grief .... some hater was complaining that my name was some fraud or something. Here I am a real person, a biohacker, patent agent, good at many things master of none:
http://www.htsresources.com/uspto.registered.patent.php