looks like scanadu is making real progress on the tricorder x-prize quest with a variety of simple devices:
excerpt from a fast company report:
The Scanadu SCOUT is incredibly easy to use--just raise the handheld device (connected by Bluetooth to a smartphone) to your temple, and wait 10 seconds for it to scan your vital signs, including temperature, ECG, SPO2, heart rate, breathing rate, and pulse transit time (that helps measure blood pressure). "It lets the consumer explore all the diagnostic possibilities of an emergency room," explains co-founder Walter De Brouwer, a Belgian futurist and entrepreneur who first prototyped a backpack-sized tricorder-like device in the late 1990s.
The device, which will retail for under $150, was surprisingly difficult to build. "It didn’t seem like a complex problem in the beginning," laughs De Brouwer. "I’ve done many scientific projects in my life, and this was the most difficult of them all. Basically you are up against a time budget and real estate which is very limited."
excerpt from a fast company report:
The Scanadu SCOUT is incredibly easy to use--just raise the handheld device (connected by Bluetooth to a smartphone) to your temple, and wait 10 seconds for it to scan your vital signs, including temperature, ECG, SPO2, heart rate, breathing rate, and pulse transit time (that helps measure blood pressure). "It lets the consumer explore all the diagnostic possibilities of an emergency room," explains co-founder Walter De Brouwer, a Belgian futurist and entrepreneur who first prototyped a backpack-sized tricorder-like device in the late 1990s.
The device, which will retail for under $150, was surprisingly difficult to build. "It didn’t seem like a complex problem in the beginning," laughs De Brouwer. "I’ve done many scientific projects in my life, and this was the most difficult of them all. Basically you are up against a time budget and real estate which is very limited."
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