I enjoy listening to the NPR station in my area on the way in to the 8-5 in the morning, and this morning they had a piece that particularly interested me.  Some mad scientists over at UCLA had hacked together a Sony Ericsson to run blood tests out in remote  third world areas.

The results of the blood sample get compared against a database to determine if the patient is infected.  This thing isn’t even a smart phone!  Obama wants to bring medical costs down; Invest in technologies like this.  You will see people flocking from misdiagnosing themselves with WebMD to getting highly accurate test results.

After listening to this broadcast, I couldn’t help thinking of any running sci-fi series where they had a handheld device to automatically scan the sick or hurt individual on the fly.  Is this the beginning of that kind of technology?  As medical research pushes the envelope of this technology, there is going to be a whole host of new applications to write and the possibilities are limitless.

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