Monday, December 22, 2008

Disease spotting cell phone! | FunTim

Disease spotting cell phone! | FunTim

"...(Y)ou can test your blood and detect diseases like HIV and malaria as well. Stunned! Dr. Aydogan Ozcan at UCLA has developed a technique that converts a cell phone into disease detection equipment by attaching LEDs, plastic light filter and some wires to a Sony Ericsson w810i camera phone."

The future of health care and even of health itself in poor countries and amongst those without adequate access to health services is suddenly looking much brighter...

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