Portable spectrometer scored on Kickstarter 1, $ 3 million instead of 200 thousand

Habré have described a portable spectrometer SCiO, a small device that allows you to determine the composition of any material, even organic, though not.

The creators of the device describe it as a molecular scanner, which can be very useful in everyday life (and for scientists, probably, such a device would be an indispensable assistant).

About how you can use the device was said little, and this - in the sequel. Go tell that to the kickstarter This spectrometer has collected 1, $ 3 million instead of 200 million, and to the end of raising an additional 33 days.

spectrometers usually very expensive, the price of many thousands and tens of thousands of dollars. Moreover, such devices can not be considered portable.

Well, the project SCiO (this инфракрасный spectrometer , as suggested in the comments) has a size large flash, and its price is about $ 300 ("early birds" on Kickstarter can get the device for $ 199).



What you can use the device? Here are some ways:

- Identify the composition of medicines that you buy in the drugstore. In any instruction is a description of the composition, which now can be checked;
- Learn how many calories are in your food, whatever;
- Learn how ripe vegetable or fruit that you are about to buy;
- Know well or feel your houseplants;
- To know what the composition of the soil that you use for your plants;
- Know which supplements are included in the products that you buy at the local supermarket;
- Learn how quality alcoholic drink you just bought (learn immediately, and not in the morning when a headache after a half glasses of alcohol consumed);
- To check that the quality / composition products as food and non-food, the manufacturer claims.





As we can see, the range of possibilities is very large devices. All scanned data is sent wirelessly to a smartphone, where the application processes the information received, giving the results of the analysis to the user.

Specifications



The device is compatible with iOS 5 and above, Android 4.3.

Will the device on sale in December.

For devices created several applications, each of which performs a limited set of functions:



Here are some more video with a demonstration of the device:





Via kickstarter

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/222605/