Smartphone Biosencor

Engineers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have created a cradle for a smart phone that employs lenses and filters to image toxins, proteins and bacteria on a slide, along with an app that analyzes the image’s data.  They foresee this as a field device for tracking epidemics or poisoning events using the phone’s GPS capability for location.  This seems to be an intermediate step between today’s normal 4 megapixel smart phone cameras and coming ones that have 41 megapixels or more—perhaps enough imaging power to bypass the cradle.  MORE

Image Credit: Brian T. Cunningham