[wastedyears]

Good idea

[ColdSteelTalon]

They have invented a medical Tricorder like on Star Trek.. :)

[Liberty1970]

Best wishes with this. Of course, with Obamacare destroying the incentive for free market exploitation of good ideas, it may never see the light of day.

[pgyanke]

... there’s an app for that.

[AlbertWang]

I’ve fooled around with the optics required to see really small things, my experience is that you need at least a couple hundred dollars worth of glass to make this happen. The lens on a cell phone isn’t high enough quality to discern the details required for this type of work.

[FreedomOfExpression]

So how simple of a device is used on Ozcan's RAZR?
/lame joke

[Retired Chemist]

Interesting article. I’ve done a lot of work with polarizing microscopes and SEMs.

[70times7]

Damnit, Jim, I'm just a random dialer!

[seastay]

its the digital camera that does the trick. The wireless and audio features of what makes a cell phone a cell phone don't have much to do with this, or am I missing something?

[_Jim]

I need Karnac’s power to really deduce what ‘magic’ it was they pulled off here ... suffice to to say, the use of a 2-D focal plane solid-state imaging array (as used in a cell phone or cheap camera) is the heart of this device; said researcher, however, didn’t just order several focal plane array imagers from a vendor or chip supplier, but rather adapted already constructed devices to a different purpose, saving him the trouble of designing/developing the hardware/firmware drivers (incl software) to make the imagers usable (extracting the 2-D array of ‘light’ data appearing on the top of the sensor/imager chip) ...