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Officials with the Nokia Sensing X Challenge have announced the second grand prize winner in their competition—DNA Medicine Institute (DMI) has won for its cutting edge medical testing device, the rHEALTH X. The team has received $525,000 in prize money and an enormous amount of publicity and prestige.
The Reusable Handheld Electrolyte and Lab Technology for Humans (rHEALTH) X is a portable handheld device that can currently conduct up to 22 lab tests (up to the FDA gold standard) from a single drop of blood. In accepting the award, representatives with DMI said that while winning the prize is great, their real objective is to bring modern medicine to the billions of people who currently have little access to medical care.
The lab tests done by the X run the gamut, from tox screening, to looking for signals in the blood that indicate diseases, to discovering the presence of viruses, such as flu or Ebola. To allow for testing with such a small device, the researchers developed new technology to test blood samples–it relies on nanotechnology and optics. The testing surface is seeded with many nano-sized test strips, each of which mix with and soak up material found in the blood. Each strip is then lined up and passed in front of a laser which is used to determine what material is in it. Findings are stored and displayed, allowing non-medically trained people to make their own diagnoses. The device also comes with a Bluetooth enabled patch to be applied to the skin which can provide respiration, heart rate etc. to a person on their smartphone.
http://phys.org/news/2014-11-dmi-nokia-handheld-medical-device.html
[More Info]: http://sensing.xprize.org/press-release/dmi-wins-nokia-sensing-xchallenge-sensor-runs-hundreds-of-lab-tests-single
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:00PM
5 comments so far and I think we can say with some certainty that AC is a stupid, paranoid, racist shitcavity.
I for one think this technology is potentially amazing. Just think of the revolution to healthcare when everyone can cheaply, easily and reliably identify health issues, and have solutions suggested to them with a handheld gadget.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:16PM
That's an improper generalization.
Oh wait, is? So you honestly think AC is a single person?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:25PM
He probably thinks that systemd is just an init system, too. Such are the ways of the delusional.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:32PM
Apparently, AC also lacks a sense of humour.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:23PM
I'm very relieved to see that you used your full real name when posting that comment, "GreatAuntAnesthesia". Otherwise we'd have been led to believe that you were using some sort of a pseudonym, and cowardly posting in an anonymous fashion.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 13 2014, @01:43PM
Your reading comprehension seems to be lacking. I wasn't criticising anyone for posting anonymously. There's nothing wrong with posting AC. Anonymity is important. I never said otherwise.
I was criticising the empty-headed bigotry being posted, doesn't matter what pseudonym it's posted under, it's still shit. It's a sad day when the majority of posts are the kind of trollish bullshit that can be currently found in this thread. Glad you stepped up to defend the trolls' right to be assholes though, even though nobody was attacking it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @04:10PM
> 5 comments so far and I think we can say with some certainty that AC is a stupid, paranoid, racist shitcavity.
Anonymous trolls are trolls! News at 11!