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."

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Regulation

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Only you (American) idiots don't realize that you have regulation (eg fu.. cun.) on radio, TV and trying on Internet _BUT_ at the same time have the bigest set of crooks on Wall Street ... just Google for Wall Street Fraud, with no regulation whatsoever.

If you did not notice, the rest of the world is pissed, and we are clearly aware that it is not just George W Bush, it is YOU.

Fix it, but remember the world moves on anyway, eg Rome Portugal UK USSR ... USA?