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This Tiny Device Could Turn Your Phone Into a Lab-Grade Spectrometer
Scitech Daily ^
| July 29, 2025
| Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University
Posted on 07/29/2025 6:06:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Spock's Tri-corder .......................
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:07:03 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay; telescope115; laplata; ...
Ping!.....................
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:07:13 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
I doubt lab grade, but probably decent enough for general use. If you can get 80% accuracy through a cell phone, it gives you something to start with.
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:07:32 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(My mom is half French. Her mother and father are French, but she lost her legs in a car accident.)
To: mewzilla
Cool BEAMS!......................
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:08:02 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:08:17 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(YMMV)
To: Jonty30
I should probably add that I mean just a normal cellphone and not one that was built to do spectronomy or spectrographing.
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:08:34 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(My mom is half French. Her mother and father are French, but she lost her legs in a car accident.)
To: Red Badger
LOL!
Just told hubby.
He’s geeking out.
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:10:58 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: Red Badger

Another Star Trek prediction coming true.
To: Red Badger
Very cool... if it really works. There have been a number of “young guns” lately who made fantastic claims, started companies, raised a bunch of money... and turned out to be... how can I put this gently? ... “exaggerating”. ๐
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:14:08 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
To: Nervous Tick
This is from a university and not a corporation seeking investor funding.............
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:16:45 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:18:14 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐ฉ? ๐ซ๐! ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐!)
To: Paladin2
If you have to ask................๐
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:18:31 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Iโm going to point this at stars and zoom in. This better work, Nerdalinger!
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:21:16 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.โ)
To: Red Badger
Literally a tri-corder!!
We’ll soon be able to “scan for spatial distortions!”. ;p
Very cool if true.
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:27:24 AM PDT
by
fuzzylogic
(welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
To: Red Badger
Great, so now I have to worry about being run off the road by drivers doing spectroscopy on their phones. How I miss the old days when all you had to worry about was texting and driving.
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:28:56 AM PDT
by
noiseman
(I The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: Red Badger
This is from a university and not a corporation seeking investor funding.............
Ah, but university’s do get patents, and investor funding for these “discoveries” just like a corporation would do.
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:29:21 AM PDT
by
ro_dreaming
(Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
To: Red Badger
I just looked up what I think are the grant amounts.
About $1.5 mil for both.
If that’s correct, great bang for the buck.
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:33:06 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/29/2025 6:38:06 AM PDT
by
Bratch
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