Scanadu Scout

The “tricorder” quest has given rise to many innovations still in progress, with more than a few focusing on smart phone technology.  Along with the phone’s camera its microphone is reviving the ancient art of sphymology—identifying pulse sounds that indicate the nature of disease and its location.  It’s conceivable that a smart phone, with a good microphone and app, might be able to identify more than four dozen pulses and 200 variations when patients are walking or weeping, sleeping or laughing, as Chinese physicians did by trained listening, some twenty-four centuries ago.    MORE WITH VIDEO

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