In African Villages, Phones Can Become Ultrasound Scanners
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#2This is the kind of investment in technology I think Bill & Melinda Gates should be remembered by, as well as their investment in vaccines and contraception. Great stuff ( and well done to the inventor)
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#3This is the kind of investment in technology I think Bill & Melinda Gates should be remembered by, as well as their investment in vaccines and contraception. Great stuff ( and well done to the inventor)
Jonathan Rothberg should have enough money to invest of his own. He is behind several dna sequencing companies.
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#4It has nothing to do with the phone or the software it's the device, which if you could get down to a hundred $ or so it could be used by farmers of livestock.
This could be a revolution, but the Ultrasound Scanners need to be in the hands of low income farmers then imagine how quickly the dam ecosystem would develop across to humans.
I've been looking to get a cheap one from China, but you can't, I'm not sure why, but perhaps it needs a certain chip that is not made cheaply yet. There are DIY's around but seem immature.
If you want to change the world, get the price down for use on animals.
This is a good first step, but while the medical community is in change it'll move at a snail pace which means a lot of people will die.
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#5Only works with Apple products? That's rather out of touch.
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#6Only works with Apple products? That's rather out of touch.
Guess if you can afford a $2000 scanner you can afford a $200 used iPhone.
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#7First time that I see that something can be connected to an IPhone. I wonder if you need special privileges from Apple, or there is an API available that can do some data (serial ?) transfer.
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#8First time that I see that something can be connected to an IPhone. I wonder if you need special privileges from Apple, or there is an API available that can do some data (serial ?) transfer.
what do you mean? You can connect an FLIR to an iPhone to get thermo reading. You can connect a payment terminal to an iPhone for credit card processing. There's the 1inch DXO camera etc.
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#9It has nothing to do with the phone or the software it's the device, which if you could get down to a hundred $ or so it could be used by farmers of livestock. This could be a revolution, but the Ultrasound Scanners need to be in the hands of low income farmers then imagine how quickly the dam ecosystem would develop across to humans. I've been looking to get a cheap one from China, but you can't, I'm not sure why, b…
I'm not sure you can mass market it. You need medical knowledge to make sense of ultrasound images. Unless you plan to use it for something else than medical
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#10This is the kind of investment in technology I think Bill & Melinda Gates should be remembered by, as well as their investment in vaccines and contraception. Great stuff ( and well done to the inventor)
Sure. As long as we remember the insults, lies and corruption as well. It's too easy to just forget bad past behavior just because suddenly they behave humanly.