The device has the potential to reveal food ingredients and detect counterfeit drugs

The Hello World documentary has traveled to Israel to test SCiO, a pocket-sized molecular sensor capable of "revealing" the amount of calories in the food you eat and discovering counterfeit drugs. .

Most of us have the habit of setting fruit to see whether it is ripe or not. But what if you could accurately measure the amount of calories, sugar and fat of fruit without touching them? The launch of the Consumer Physics project in Israel has developed a compact size device called the SCiO with the ability to beam light into food, such as an avocado, and immediately tell you the parameters listed above. .

Journalist Ashlee Vance, founder and developer of the Hello World project brought the device to a market with the participation of Consumer Physics CEO Dror Sharon. Here, they experimented with cheese, meat and some other foods to test SCiO's performance. In addition to food analysis, SCiO can also identify fuel at pumping stations and even detect counterfeit drugs.

This device takes advantage of Israeli computer chips. Consumer Physics took a large piece of the scientific device known as a spectrometer and reduced it to a chip with the size of a coin. By combining the chip with near infrared light, SCiO can "stir" the molecules within the object and reveal its composition.

This product has attracted public attention through one of the largest Kickstarter campaigns in Israel's history and Sharon hopes the technology will be further developed so that users can use it on their cell phones. Your future is not far off.