The world is an increasingly busy place, and scheduling that appointment with your doctor for a check up might be on the end of your to-do list. As new technologies enter into the world of health and medicine, it is becoming increasingly easier to check your own vitals to ensure you're living the healthiest lifestyle possible. Enter IEEE Member Yangong Zheng and the electronic nose technology being used to detect and diagnose diseases and disorders simply through the smell your body emits. Although the biological olfactory system was inspiration for this type of technology, an electronic nose does not physically look like or depict a human nose. "Artificial systems for noninvasive chemical sensing are commonly referred to as'electronic nose technology'," explains Zheng.