March 28, 2008
Instant disease diagnosis: via cellphone
Japanese cellular operator, NTT DoCoMo, claims to have demonstrated a 'molecular delivery system' that it one day hopes to incorporate into cellphones enabling instant remote diagnosis of the user's health and emotional state. [via IT WIre]
"The cellphone would be equipped with a 'biochip' - a fingertip-sized microchip for biological and chemical analysis that would be capable of extracting single molecules from the user's sweat, or blood and by analysing these identify a range of diseases, or simply the person's level of stress, anxiety or excitement.
The data generated from the biochip would be transmitted to a medical specialist over the cellular network. DoCoMo says the system could be used, for example, for remote health checks or preventive medicine."
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