A Smart Phone that Can Sniff out Sickness?

Another step to the Star Trek Tricorder.

…the team is developing an e-nose that can sense chemical vapors. And Lewis’s grad student Heather McCraig thinks the technology will someday be small and affordable enough that a doctor can carry it around on her iPhone, and use it to perform instant diagnoses on her patients.

via A Smart Phone that Can Sniff out Sickness? – Technology Review.

by: Larry Emmott at May 18, 2012.