Using Your iPhone Camera To Detect Diseases – Amazing Tech
I’m aware that that headline is ambiguous and I’m also aware that most of you know I’ve been unwell recently, so perhaps that helped me tune into this brand new app called Uchek. Quite remarkably it is an app that will test your urine sample, don’t worry you don’t have to bring the two into direct contact. How it works is that you produce a urine sample into a suitable container, then using a specially developed color-coded urinalysis strip, you dip that into the sample, next you take a photograph of the results and the app will then analyze it.
There are twenty five diseases that Uchek can detect, including urinary tract infection, pre-eclampsia, diabetes, it also measures levels of glucose (which is probably part of the diabetes detection), proteins, ketones and many more. Wired reported that out of 1,200 sample tests, the app proved more accurate than humans in interpreting the color-coded strips.
This app has not received final approval from Apple yet and an Android version is also in the works. When it is approved, the app will cost $0.99/£0.69 and the color-coded strips will retail for $20 a packet.
This really is break-through technology and I was so pleased to learn about this today. Just imagine how this could develop in the future.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
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Kevin Kuster
Truly amazing. Pls let us know when it is available.