Mobile phone kits to diagnose STDs

[Accidental Martyr]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/05/new-test-mobile-phones-diagnose-stds

Mobile phones and computers will soon be able to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases under innovative plans to cut the UK's rising rate of herpes, chlamydia and gonorrhoea among young people.

I heard this story on the radio the other day and it sounded a bit far-fetched to me, but I guess this technology is being developed.

 

[casebro]

Does the camera look inside your ear for drainage, or do you have to drop trou ?

 

[Accidental Martyr]

Does the camera look inside your ear for drainage, or do you have to drop trou ?

Apparently, you spit or pee on a chip then stick it in your phone or computer and it tells you what disease you have.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/05/new-test-mobile-phones-diagnose-stds


I heard this story on the radio the other day and it sounded a bit far-fetched to me, but I guess this technology is being developed.

I have many STDs. I look forward to using this product.

 

[Audible Click]

Apparently, you spit or pee on a chip then stick it in your phone or computer and it tells you what disease you have.

Ewww.

 

[PracticalNihilist]

Old: No glove, no love

New: No phone, no boning

 

[brodski]

there's an app for that....

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

there's an app for that.(TM)

Fixed it. Apple owns a trademark on that phrase.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370663,00.asp

 

[Accidental Martyr]

I have many STDs. I look forward to using this product.

Maybe they will add an app that automatically calls your previous sexual partners.

 

[I Ratant]

http://www.flixxy.com/sumsing-turbo-3000-cellphone.htm

 

[brodski]

Fixed it. Apple owns a trademark on that phrase.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370663,00.asp

but despite my frequent petitioning of the JREF, I'm not paid to post yet, so it doesn't matter.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Maybe they will add an app that automatically calls your previous sexual partners.

Partners?

 

[casebro]

Partners?

Uhh, which hand do you hold your 'phone' in? Switch hands?

 

[casebro]

The gismo for reading the diabetic's test strips could easily interface with a PC. Modern lab tests are done automatically, dip a stick, get multiple read outs. So the convergence is not that much of an epiphany.

Cost is the biggie. Strips will cost what, $20 each? Plus the hard ware and soft ware. Probably biggest market will be to pseudo-medicos? Quackapractors, or those cholesterol screeners at the health food stores? Or, the porn industry?

 

[The Fallen Serpent]

Or, the porn industry?

I think you just nailed it.