Phone accessories 'know' the human examination

The Scanadu Foundation, based at NASA's Aimes Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., Is developing three models of its smartphone accessories for use in patients or other patients. .

Accessories for smartphones Scanadu can replace your doctor for things like temperature, blood pressure, urinalysis, analysis and some treatment tips.

Scanadu is currently producing three types of devices, namely: Scanadu Scout can give information about blood oxygen levels, blood pressure, electrocardiograms, temperature ... from the temples; ScanaFlo is a device that performs urinalysis, which predicts a wide range of diseases involving the urinary system, kidneys and many other organs, and ScanaFlu is used to predict the flu.

These accessory devices can play the role of a physician

These medical devices are connected to the phone via Bluetooth, and the information obtained will be processed through a separate application. This application (used on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone) will provide more accurate questions to users.

In case the patient is in a dangerous condition, the phone will give the address of the nearest hospital, phone number, and route. If the disease is not severe, the application will give specific instructions to patients can correct itself.

The 'handheld doctor' inventor promised this device will be launched in 2013. The cost per product is about $ 150.