This phone’s molecular sensor knows which strawberry is sweeter and how much fat you have
January 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
To be honest, I didn’t know we could do this yet. Welcome to the future, Paul. SCiO is a miniaturized near-infrared spectrometer, which detects the molecular signature of things. It was Kickstarted a couple years ago, and now it’s been miniaturized small enough to fit inside a phone. Specifically, it’s inside the new Changhong H2.
The sensor works by bouncing infrared off an object and registering the unique molecular fingerprint that bounces back. It’s not so fancy that you can just point it at anything and it tells you what it is. Instead, developers can create different use cases by training it on a bunch of samples. Say, for example, you want to know the gluten content of bread. A developer just would get a ton of slices of bread,…
