The uses of smartphones are numerous, and now it’s time to add some more functions to this list. The biomedical engineers at the Columbia University have made a smartphone accessory which can be used to diagnose HIV and syphilis. This is a dongle which can be attached to the phone’s headphone and an application displays the results.
This device just takes 15 minutes to detect these diseases and it acts like a miniature lab by combining the mechanical, electronic and optical functions. This device doesn’t need any external source of energy and it performs an ELISA i.e.
