The mobile phones of the future are expected to be more closely embedded in our day-to-day lives than ever before.
7 latest inventions are here,
1.’Electronic skin’ takes wearable health monitors to the next level:
A new, electronic skin microsystem tracks heart rate, respiration, muscle movement and other health data, and wirelessly transmits it to a smartphone. The electronic skin offers several improvements over existing trackers, including greater flexibility, smaller size, and the ability to stick the self-adhesive patch which is a very soft silicone about four centimeters in diameter just about anywhere on the body.
2.Your smartphone can be used for Fighting Cybercrime:
A University at Buffalo-led team of researchers has discovered how to identify smartphones by examining just one photo taken by the device.
The advancement opens the possibility of using smartphones instead of body parts as a form of identification to deter cybercrime.
Like snowflakes, no two smartphones are the same. Each device, regardless of the manufacturer or make, can be identified through a pattern of microscopic imaging flaws that are present in every picture they take. It’s kind of like matching bullets to a gun. This new technology could become part of the authentication process like PIN numbers and passwords — that customers complete at cash registers, ATMs and during online transactions.
3.Smartphone Microscope offers cost-effective DNA Sequencing and Genetic Mutation analysis:
Now, a smartphone-based microscope developed by researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA and at Sweden’s Stockholm University and Uppsala University could make the mutation testing accessible to health care workers even in remote locations, without the need for large, expensive lab equipment. The device can image and analyze specific DNA sequences and genetic mutations in tumor cells and tissue samples without having to first extract DNA from them.
4.Wireless, Wearable Toxic-Gas Detector:
MIT researchers have developed low-cost chemical sensors, made from chemically altered carbon nanotubes, that enable smartphones or other wireless devices to detect trace amounts of toxic gases. Using the sensors, the researchers hope to design lightweight, inexpensive radio-frequency identification (RFID) badges to be used for personal safety and security. Such badges could be worn by soldiers on the battlefield to rapidly detect the presence of chemical weapons such as nerve gas or choking agents and by people who work around hazardous chemicals prone to leakage.
5.Mobile App helps to detect Anemia without Blood Test:
Biomedical engineers have developed a smartphone app with the aim of non-invasive detection of anemia. Instead of a blood test, the app uses photos of someone’s fingernails taken on a smartphone to determine whether the level of hemoglobin in their blood seems low.
6.HemaApp to detect Anemia. Noninvasive Blood Screening of Hemoglobin using Smartphone Cameras:
A team of researchers from the University of Washington have developed an app that turns smartphones into anemia detectors. HemaApp is a smartphone application that noninvasively monitors blood hemoglobin concentration using the smartphone’s camera and various lighting sources. Hemoglobin measurement is a standard clinical tool commonly used for screening anemia and assessing a patient’s response to iron supplement treatments.
7.Smartphones can detect Diabetes, Pregnancy and Hazardous Gases using SPR Sensor:
Researchers at the University of Hanover, Germany, have developed a self-contained fiber optic sensor for smartphones with the potential for use in a wide variety of biomolecular tests, including those for detecting pregnancy or monitoring diabetes. The readings of the sensor can run through an application on a smartphone which provide real-time results.
When properly provisioned, the smartphone-user has the ability to monitor multiple types of body fluids, including: blood, urine, saliva, sweat or breath. In case of medical applications, the sensor readings can be combined with the GPS signal of a smartphone and users can then be guided to the next drug store, hospital or the ambulance.
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