Smartphones

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has created an app — FeverPhone — that transforms smartphones into thermometers without adding new hardware. To take someone’s temperature, the screen of a smartphone is held to a patient’s forehead. Shown here is lead author Joseph Breda (left), a UW doctoral student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, measuring Richard Li’s temperature.Dennis Wise/University of Washington
Transforming smartphones into thermometers without adding ANY new hardware
A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has created an app —
Earthquake early warnings can be delivered successfully using a small network of off-the-shelf smartphones
via Sanford Underground Research Facility Earthquake early warnings can be delivered successfully using a small
Smartphone imaging systems for medical use
Smartphone-based imaging for various biomedical applications grouped into four clinical workflows. Credit: Hunt et al.,
A cheap and rapid way to find killer bacteria using quantum dots and a smart phone

Australian scientists develop cheap and rapid way to identify antibiotic-resistant golden staph (MRSA). A combination

A smartphone based spectrometer could detect dangerous chemicals in everyday circumstances

Imagine pointing your smartphone at a salty snack you found at the back of your

Researchers have developed an inexpensive biosensor that attaches to a phone and uses bacteria to detect unsafe arsenic levels

A smartphone device could help millions of people avoid drinking water contaminated by arsenic. Researchers

Using existing smartphones to predict and curb the spread of infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa

A new Imperial-led review has outlined how health workers could use existing phones to predict

Artificial intelligence, can discern and enhance microscopic details in photos taken by smartphones to approach the quality of images from laboratory-grade microscopes

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have demonstrated that deep learning, a powerful form of

Smartphone-enabled mobile health using a spectroscopic science camera

The latest versions of most smartphones contain at least two and sometimes three built-in cameras.

WSU portable smartphone laboratory detects cancer

Washington State University researchers have developed a low-cost, portable laboratory on a smartphone that can

Revolutionary flexible smartphone allows users to feel the buzz by bending their apps

Researchers at Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab have developed the world’s first full-colour, high-resolution and

This Smartphone Is Made From Fairly Mined Minerals, And It’s Designed To Last Longer Than Your Contract

Finally, a mobile device you can feel good about—not because it’s shiny and new, but

How Sensor-Packed Smartphones Can Read Your Mood, Guard Your Data — and Wreak Havoc in the Wrong Hands

Smartphones can already do pretty much everything, right? Actually, UAB computer scientists have a few

Stanford researchers have developed inexpensive adapters that enable a smartphone to capture high-quality images of the front and back of the eye
Smartphones become ‘eye-phones’ with low-cost devices developed by ophthalmologists

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed two inexpensive adapters that enable a smartphone

Smartphone as mentor: How tech could change behavior

What if they could act as mentors in mindfulness, helping users stay attentive in order