Hacked cell phone blood analyzer

posted Dec 20th 2008 11:02am by Caleb Kraft
filed under: news

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Lensfree Ultrawide-ﬁeld Cell-monitoring Array platform based on Shadow or LUCAS for short is an amazing new hack by a researcher at UCLA. This quick little hack involving only some wire, a filter, and an LED might revolutionize blood testing. This hacked camera replaces a unit that is usually the size of a refrigerator and very expensive to run. This is a pretty amazing achievement and should serve as inspiration for hackers all everywhere.

[thanks to everyone who sent us this link]

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tagged: blood test, LUCAS, phone

9 Responses to Hacked cell phone blood analyzer

Mikotoke says:

December 20, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Excellent work, this can change blood testing as it is today, once more, good job guys!

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supernova_hq says:

December 20, 2008 at 12:12 pm

It would be nice if the summary would mention that it is for detecting diseases, etc. However even after reading the article, I still have no idea WHICH diseases it detects…

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loststeve says:

December 20, 2008 at 12:25 pm

@ supernova_hq:
Well then you obviously can’t read , it mentions two … back to school!

Be nice to have some more info tho – I’d find it hard to believe the phone can run the software as these things usually require some number-crunching power, but if it doesn’t why’re they using a phone?

Some more info, but not a lot, here:
http://www.medica.de/cipp/md_medica/custom/pub/content,lang,2/oid,25644/ticket,g_u_e_s_t/local_lang,2/~/Blood_Analysis_With_a_Cell_Phone.html

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macegr says:

December 20, 2008 at 3:11 pm

looks just like the lensless microscope project from makezine: http://cachefly.oreilly.com/make/lensless_microscope.pdf

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amk says:

December 20, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Am I the only one thinking these guys jumped the gun going public here? Anything that involves a modded cellphone camera is obvious in the very early stages of development. I would have hung on to this idea a bit longer and produced a proper prototype.

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Ian says:

December 20, 2008 at 10:25 pm

“I’d find it hard to believe the phone can run the software as these things usually require some number-crunching power, but if it doesn’t why’re they using a phone?”

If only there was some commonly available device which had a camera attached and was capable of transmitting data over large distances!

Man, someone should invent that.

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foxops says:

December 21, 2008 at 3:47 am

the software doesn’t run on the phone, it runs on a pc. they did produce a prototype, two others actually – besides the phone, so I guess that is three. just follow the link and you to can become a wealth of knowledge that makes snarky remarks :)

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sarsface says:

December 21, 2008 at 11:16 am

wouldn’t using a wide wavelength RGB led be better, as you could cycle through the colors and take an exposure with each? seems much more logical.