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with over 2 million apps available on each of Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store smartphones have grown to become far more versatile than when they first burst onto the scene about a decade ago and now that trend is evolving into a greater selection of smartphone attachments from miniature projectors to infrared cameras so maybe then it shouldn't be too surprising that actual molecular scanners for smartphones are making their way to an iPhone near you but what the heck is a molecular scanner is it like one of those tricorder things that mr. data used in Star Trek well actually yes just as the fictional tricorder could give the crew of the enterprise useful information about their surroundings real-life molecular scanners analyze the chemical makeup of objects without the need for uber expensive lab equipment or restraining orders UC chemicals with a different molecular structure absorbs and reflect light in different ways due to electrons in those molecules existing in different energy states it's been a long time since you took highschool chemistry and you forgot all this stuff but gist of it is that a handheld molecular scanner fires a light beam in the near infrared spectrum which is used because it's higher frequency can penetrate further into objects then lower energy far infrared or radio waves once the infrared light hits the object you want to scan that object will absorb certain wavelengths of light more strongly than others based on its chemical makeup the light that's reflected back to the center is then analyzed to create what's essentially a chemical fingerprint based on how strongly or weakly each wavelength of light is reflected this kind of scanning more formally called near-infrared spectroscopy or NIRS is used for tons of cool applications in medicine NIRS can analyze everything from oxygen saturation in blood in patients with cardiac issues to brain activity by determining hemoglobin concentrations in the brain all without the need to slice anybody open but if you're not a doctor and you're interested in getting your hands on the smartphone model I mentioned in the beginning consumer physics has come out with a personal molecular scanner called Scio which mimics some of the industrial applications of NIRS such as analyzing agricultural products and pharmaceuticals but what does this mean for you well consumer physics is pitching more everyday uses for the style as well like scanning food and having nutritional information pop up on your screen since supermarkets typically don't stick calorie labels on ribeye steaks or avocados or if you want to take the nirs for nutrition angle a bit further you could point this gadget at yourself and it would give you a body fat percentage so you can feel proud or hate yourself accordingly they've also announced that there will be support for drug identification right out of the box and no not those kinds of drugs so don't expect the cops to carry them around right away it's designed more for over-the-counter and prescription medicines so you can tell exactly what's in them so since there are also features for developers you might be able to test other objects for authenticity in the future if this particular product takes off we might see more consumer molecular scanners from other companies hopefully for less than consumer physics is current 300 US dollar asking price but do keep in mind that nirs isn't meant to be a super high precision method of chemical analysis it sacrifices some degree of accuracy for speed and ease of use and while this probably won't matter much to general consumers it means that I wouldn't bring it into the lab and take its readings as gospel if you're preparing your PhD dissertation in chemistry tunnel Bayer makes browsing the internet safer and more secure it lets you tunnel to up to 20 different countries allowing you to browse the internet and use online services like video streamers as though you are in a different country 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