Cell Phones to Detect Cancer
December 9th, 2005 1:32 PM | by Christen da Costa | 2 Comments
How ironic would it be if you could detect cancer with a cell phone’s camera? Ironic of course, because cell phones have been thought to cause cancer. Moving on from my pessimistic thought…
A psychologist in Israel has developed a technology that soon maybe able to detect cancer, especially breast cancer by adding an infrared camera and some software to a cell phone. The women simply have to take a picture of themselves and then transfer the information to a lab for analysis. According to Dr. Yaniv, who developed this tech, says this method is far more effective then a self examination and examines two aspects: temperature analysis and oxygen flow to the area in question.
Already one Israeli cell phone company, Cellcom, is working on integrating this infrared camera and software.
this sounds grrrrr8!!
This for real? I think I could detect breast cancer with a normal digital camera (no infrared needed)…I’d at least have fun trying to guess.