Thursday August 20, 2009 A little Java ME bio lab in your pocket
Researchers at UC Berkley have taken a Java ME tech-enabled cell phone and created a mini bio lab out of it. They strapped on a microscope to the phone's 3.2 megapixel camera and used Java software to analyze samples of blood and sputum to determine in real-time, lab results that would have taken much longer to process when sent back to a fixed lab. See: Mobile device: CellScope fast analysis Here's a quote: ...the CellScope—a mobile phone fitted with a microscope and a built in image analyser. It can be used to field test blood and sputum samples; the magnified images with the parasite count can be sent to doctors in any part of the globe through the phone. The software used for image analysis is written in java and can be used on any operating system ...So, if you suspect the guy next to you on the train has TB, no more guesswork. Just have him spit into your cell phone and viola! You'll know if you've been contaminated with the world's most destructive disease... or not. :-) |
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