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Scientists Hack Cellphone To Detect Diseases
Dave Bullock (eecue) plugs his piece up at Wired on a cellphone modded into a portable blood tester. This could become a significant piece of medical technology. "A new MacGyver-esque cellphone hack could bring cheap, on-the-spot disease detection to even the most remote villages on the planet. Using only an LED, plastic light filter, and some wires, scientists at UCLA have modded a cellphone into a portable blood tester capable of detecting HIV, malaria, and other illnesses. Blood tests today require either refrigerator-sized machines that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or a trained technician who manually identifies and counts cells under a microscope. These systems are slow, expensive and require dedicated labs to function. And soon they could be a thing of the past."
And thus the building blocks of the medical tricorder are laid.
tack on a portal ultrasound, xray , and micro MRI and maybe doctors bills will start to come down.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
We need to stop worrying about ending hunger there and start getting every last one of them a cell phone!
"UCLA researcher Dr. Aydogan Ozcan images thousands of blood cells instantly by placing them on an off-the-shelf camera sensor and lighting them with a filtered-light source (coherent light, for you science buffs)."
So instead of Occam's Razor, this is Ozcan's RAZR?
Dude stop it, you're gonna blow some conniving scientists's grant money.
Yes but I believe you forgot the CDx5 aphysical dipole bacterium, usually called "Bull" for its similarity to same, which is so small that it actually lives *within* molecules. These new scanners are able to detect levels of the excretions of these Bull, and plot them against known levels during infections of certain diseases. Scientists are still trying to figure out a name for these excretions, but suffice it to say the obvious choice was not picked for obvious reasons.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
When it test's a patient positive for HIV, it plays a polyphonic ringtone of 'Always looks on the bright side of life'
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
If only they have used the magic "iPhone" incantation this would have been a success.
Like they did here. Not very scientistie.
Just compare these two titles.
"Scientists Hack Cellphone To Detect Diseases" and "Scientists Hack iPhone To Detect Diseases"
Can't you see just how much cooler the one on the right is?
No? Hmm...
Did you try crossing and uncrossing your eyes or viewing it on an iPhone screen?
It looks MUCH cooler on an iPhone...
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Yeah, but are you positive?
They should just get Android,
int SENSOR_TRICORDER A constant describing a Tricorder When this sensor is available and enabled, the device can be used as a fully functional Tricorder. 64 0x00000040
It's got the tricorder function already :D