Imagine pointing your smartphone at a salty snack you found at the back of your pantry and immediately knowing if its ingredients had turned rancid. Devices called spectrometers can detect d... Read more
Accessible, connected, and computationally powerful, smartphones aren’t just for “selfies” anymore. They have emerged as powerful evaluation tools capable of diagnosing med... Read more
Micro-spectrometer opens door to a wealth of new smartphone functions Use your smartphone to check how clean the air is, whether food is fresh or a lump is malignant. This has all come a ste... Read more
The project was recognized as one of the 10 most outstanding creations among innovators under 35 delivered by the MIT Tech Review. Two young technologists from the Technological Institute of... Read more
With an ever increasing number of everyday objects from our homes, workplaces and even from our wardrobes, getting connected to the Internet, known as the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), r... Read more
Finally, a mobile device you can feel good about—not because it’s shiny and new, but because it’s ethically made and built to last Bas van Abel wanted a phone that worked well en... Read more
Lens Could Give Schools, Clinics Low-Cost Alternative to Conventional Equipment Researchers at the University of Houston have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive sma... Read more
New attachment turns a smartphone into a microscope that can image and size DNA molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair If you thought scanning one of those strange, square QR codes... Read more
A device developed by MGH investigators may bring rapid, accurate molecular diagnosis of tumors and other diseases to locations lacking the latest medical technology A device developed by Ma... Read more
A team of researchers, led by Samuel K. Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a low-cost smartphone accessory that can perform a point-of-... Read more
In a 3D world, more transistors in an enclosure, so more memory and faster processors Antoine Legrain, doctoral degree candidate at the University of Twente, has developed a method to design... Read more
KIT Computer Scientists Work on a Measurement System for Mobile End Devices to Compile a Pollution Map in Collaboration with Users using Participatory Sensing Big cities in the smog: Photos... Read more
The SandPiper I.S. is the world’s first truly portable, inexpensive, smartphone enabled spirometer. It is based upon patented (pending) SandPiper sensor technology. The sensor is a ne... Read more
Making smartphones smarter with see-through sensors Your smartphone’s display glass could soon be more than just a pretty face, thanks to new technology developed by researchers... Read more
“That’s a serious threat.” Research by Associate Professor Romit Roy Choudhury and graduate students Sanorita Dey and Nirupam Roy have demonstrated that the accelerometers used... Read more
