Cellphone hacked to analyze blood, detect diseases on the spot

Not that the whole using-cellphones-for-disease-detection is completely fresh, but the latest handset hack for medical purposes is still mighty impressive. UCLA researcher Dr. Aydogan Ozcan has essentially converted a standard cellphone into a portable blood tester of sorts, which is capable of detecting HIV, malaria and various other illnesses. Put as simply as possible, the device works by analyzing blood cells that are placed on an integrated off-the-shelf camera sensor and lit up with a filtered light source. Said light source exposes unique qualities of the cells, and from there, the doc's homegrown software interprets the data and determines what's what. So, has anyone given this guy the main line to NTT DoCoMo, or what?

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[Steve02k7 Posted Dec 22nd 2008 1:12AM]

So how about step by steps for those of us preparing for the zombie epidemic?

[Steve02k7 Posted Dec 22nd 2008 1:17AM]

So how about step by steps for those of us preparing for the zombie epidemic?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 23rd 2008 12:50PM]

Hahaha if this ever goes mainstream we could test our hookers to make sure they're clean in less than a few seconds.