Monday, February 23, 2009

Nokia health guard


The British company «Applied Nanodetectors Ltd» (AND) has successfully introduced a prototype of a mobile phone for medical diagnostics. It will determine the type of disease, based on the analysis of breath holder. The unit is equipped with built-AND chip sensors, «recognized» a number of gases, including CO2, NOx and NH3 and calculate the ratio of substances to each other. The results are compared with data on disease, and then displaying the user.

The company intends to release the phone with the support of Japan's mobile operators. After a successful product launch will be in Europe. However, information about when this will happen yet.