A research team from Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota-Twin Cities has developed a lab-on-a-chip that uses a minimal number of moving parts and can be powered wirelessly by a smartphone, ...

Though Polaroid still makes instant-print cameras, most people these days capture memories using a smartphone. The Impossible Instant Lab from 2012 was devised to turn phone images into physical ...

The lab-on-a-chip gets the power it needs for testing though the headphone jack on a smartphone, and sends the results through the port to the phone for computation, display and storage. Samiksha ...

As the saying goes, the best camera is the one that's with you. For most of us that's a smartphone, so the traditions of printing and sharing physical photos have slowly fallen by the wayside. To ...

Can’t decide between a digital Instagram and a physical Polaroid? Using mirrors and optical trickery, Polaroid Originals will soon allow you to have your Instagram and hold it too with the Polaroid ...

UB researchers are enlisting hundreds of students to build an unprecedented smartphone network that will help scientists improve handheld computers and better understand how the devices are changing ...

When was the last time you heard a medical device company say the first market it’s pursuing is Central America? But that’s the plan for Biomeme’s Smartphone-enabled lab. Its mobile qPCR thermocycler ...

A few weeks ago, when we revisited Eric Topol's top 10 digital health predictions, Topol mentioned microfluidics -- and the ability to create home versions of medical lab tests -- as one of the ...

A smartphone-based multichannel spectrometer and app can analyze several lab samples simultaneously for cancer biomarker detection and works as well as traditional lab analysis, according to ...

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Researchers have developed technology that enables a smartphone to perform lab-grade medical diagnostic tests that typically require large, expensive instruments. Researchers at the University of ...

Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the ...