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There's a lot of major things here. 1) Tattoo is invisible. No stigma attached. 2) No blood drawn for testing for various materials 3) If processing and power
by Ronkdar 15y ago
There's a lot of major things here.
1) Tattoo is invisible. No stigma attached.
2) No blood drawn for testing for various materials
3) If processing and power get consolidated onto the phone, this will be massively portable and accessible to the masses, assuming they manufacture large quantities of the case.
Currently, the iPhone is basically just a camera chassis. You could achieve the same effect by building a case for your cheap little Canon Powershot, which has the benefit of including a removeable SD card.
- sliverstorm 15y agoYeah, but using the iPhone is more buzzworthy. Even if you're just using it as a hammer, using the iPhone instead of something else = buzz and clicks
- skimbrel 15y agoYes, the iPhone is currently just a camera chassis, but it's a network-enabled camera chassis. As the article said, they want to write an iPhone application to do the analysis immediately instead of offloading it to a desktop computer. If the processing is too heavy, the iPhone still has the advantage of being able to zap the image off to a server that can munge it and return the results. Easier than schlepping an SD card back to your PC.
- Someone 15y agoUsing an iPhone still feels like a clumsy solution. I think the real application will use some ASIC in your insulin pump to do the processing, and immediately adjust the dosage.