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From a few years back, I recall that an Israeli company was going to give us affordable consumer chemical scanners. Anyone remember what happened to that compa

From a few years back, I recall that an Israeli company was going to give us affordable consumer chemical scanners. Anyone remember what happened to that company and technology?

jqpabc123 3y ago
This might work to detect certain base elements like lead. But I doubt this will work reliably with pharmaceuticals. These are complex chemicals. A slight variation in composition can be the difference between medicine and carcinogen. To reliably automate testing for every possible variation would be virtually impossible without producing so many false positives as to be essentially useless.
- consumer451 3y ago
  I just found the company that I was thinking of, they still exist but only in b2b, but only in a very specific niche. They have scaled way back from their original ambition. They seem to have had consumer tech already,[0] and rolled it back for reasons which I do not understand. > Our patented solution combines two integrated technological components, the revolutionary SCiO Sensor, and our powerful cloud. Together these disruptive technologies provide a comprehensive end to end solution that gives you everything your business needs for instant material analysis.[1] A consumer product no longer exists, even though one was originally delivered. This could be an issue of going up-market first, scaling issues, or if I believed in conspiracies like "killer acquisitions,"[2] then I might imagine that this technology would be inconvenient for many industries if end consumers had the spectrographic data in hand. This inconvenience might be a bunch of people complaining about compounds which were not dangerous, or it might democratize the testing that the FDA should be doing, and show dangerous contamination in many consumer products, especially in the food category. [0] https://theindexproject.org/post/scio https://theindexproject.org/post/scio [1] https://www.consumerphysics.com/ https://www.consumerphysics.com/ [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22killer+acquisition%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22killer+acquisition%22 https://www.timesofisrael.com/scanner-identifyng-foods-calorie-ingredient-count-honored-by-world-body/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/scanner-identifyng-foods-calor...

From a few years back, I recall that an Israeli company was going to give us affordable consumer chemical scanners. Anyone remember what happened to that company and technology?

jqpabc123 3y ago

This might work to detect certain base elements like lead. But I doubt this will work reliably with pharmaceuticals. These are complex chemicals. A slight variation in composition can be the difference between medicine and carcinogen. To reliably automate testing for every possible variation would be virtually impossible without producing so many false positives as to be essentially useless.

consumer451 3y ago
I just found the company that I was thinking of, they still exist but only in b2b, but only in a very specific niche. They have scaled way back from their original ambition. They seem to have had consumer tech already,[0] and rolled it back for reasons which I do not understand. > Our patented solution combines two integrated technological components, the revolutionary SCiO Sensor, and our powerful cloud. Together these disruptive technologies provide a comprehensive end to end solution that gives you everything your business needs for instant material analysis.[1] A consumer product no longer exists, even though one was originally delivered. This could be an issue of going up-market first, scaling issues, or if I believed in conspiracies like "killer acquisitions,"[2] then I might imagine that this technology would be inconvenient for many industries if end consumers had the spectrographic data in hand. This inconvenience might be a bunch of people complaining about compounds which were not dangerous, or it might democratize the testing that the FDA should be doing, and show dangerous contamination in many consumer products, especially in the food category. [0] https://theindexproject.org/post/scio https://theindexproject.org/post/scio [1] https://www.consumerphysics.com/ https://www.consumerphysics.com/ [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22killer+acquisition%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22killer+acquisition%22 https://www.timesofisrael.com/scanner-identifyng-foods-calorie-ingredient-count-honored-by-world-body/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/scanner-identifyng-foods-calor...