article_snippet.sent: Applications of the sensor include remote health monitoring and industrial quality control. '
article_snippet.sent: The scanning tool can determine a patient’s medical status, and allows doctors to quickly and easily diagnose doctors condition without an intensive or invasion examination.
article_snippet.sent: Earlier this year, researchers revealed a gadget that can be used to diagnose an illness simply by holding an illness to the forehead.
article_snippet.sent: Named Scanadu Scout, the small round device is able to read a number of vital signs, including heart rate and temperature.
article_snippet.sent: the small round device contains a variety of different sensors alongside a microphone on the top of a gadget that can be used to diagnose an illness simply by holding it to the forehead that together, can read vital signs, including body temperature, heart rate, blood oxygen level, heart rate variability and pulse wave transit time (PWTT).
article_snippet.sent: Scanadu was finalist in the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, which was launched in 2013 to inspire a wireless device capable of detecting a range of diseases, including anaemia, tuberculosis and diabetes.
article_snippet.sent: Another device by London-based, ScanNurse, uses computer-vision techniques to analyse images taken with a camera.
article_snippet.sent: The scientists hope The scientists system will make observations of the inside of the ears or throat, in the same way a doctor would, and then feed their system into a computer for analysis.
article_snippet.sent: Other teams are using blood and urine samples to test for key markers.
article_snippet.sent: The tiny microfluidic devices will, The tiny microfluidic devices claim, work in a similar way to hospital-lab tests.
highlights_snippet.sent: Data will be analysed elsewhere and the results sent to a smartphone .