Thursday, November 12, 2015
3 amazing technologies that can enhance your smartphone
Gas sensors
New inexpensive wireless sensors developed by chemists at MIT detect gaseous ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, cyclohexanone and other dangerous gases, and can be read by a smartphone.
The gas-sensor- tag and smartphone reading combo would make it super easy to measure explosive chemicals or hazardous environmental pollutants.
The chemical readings from smartphones could be combined with geolocation data to track and map hazardous regions. Also, a sensor could be fixed to food so that anyone with a smartphone could assess the freshness of food. The sensors could measure chemicals released by rotten or spoiled food.
Ridiculously Accurate GPS
Geolocation technology is already widely used in
smartphones. That's how and why you can follow driving directions with Google maps, get picked up by an Uber, or ask your smartphone to locate the closest Starbucks. But geolocation software developed by engineers at the University of Texas at Austin makes it possible to identify a position accurately to within a centimeter using the inexpensive antenna sensors that are in smartphones.
Synced with the camera in your smartphone, this down-to-the-centimeter GPS would make it possible to instantly map your surroundings in 3-D, increasing the subtle sophistication of virtual reality technology. Also, centimeter- specific geolocation would allow cars to sense and avoid each other in more nuanced situations.
Spectrometer
A spectrometer is a tool typically used in physical,
chemical and biological research that measures properties of light to analyze an object's chemical makeup.
A company called Consumer Physics introduced a handheld spectrometer named Scio last year, and more recently, MIT announced that scientists at the
university have developed a spectrometer, enough to fit inside a smartphone camera. In a
smartphone, a spectrometer could give users an easy and accurate way to detect skin conditions, track a person's vital signs or identify environmental pollutants. It could also give users a way to find out what's in their food or medication.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment