Monday 9 February 2015

In continuation of my last post...

Here's something interesting.

http://www.immortal.org/5211/new-34-smartphone-device-tests-hiv-syphilis-15-minutes/

A smartphone device which can perform tests on you to determine whether you have syphilis or HIV in a convenient and compact form factor. While this kind of technology no doubt has a legitimate premise and obvious usefulness, given the sort of dealings some tech companies seem to have in ethically questionable research, potentially giving them access to this kind of information could be a little unsettling.

(the aforementioned post)