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Apr 18, 2015

Discover the Chemical Composition of Everyday Stuff…With a Smartphone Camera

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

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Our smartphones can do a lot—compute, pin down our location, sense motion and orientation, send and receive wireless signals, take photographs and video. What if you could also learn exactly what chemical components were present in any object? A new invention out of Israel aims to enable just that.

“The tricorder is no longer science fiction,” a recent Tel Aviv University (TAU) article declared. While a number devices in recent years have inspired similar comparisons, maybe this one is a little closer. Read more

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  1. Calling it a tricorder implies advanced analytics.

    I can deliver therapeutics.