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"...These units can currently be used to help identify for example the sugar content of a slice of cheesecake, the fat content of the cream that’s about to go into your coffee, or if the ibuprofen you’re about to take for your headache is the genuine item or not...

 

...Consumer Physics’ SCiO scanner uses near-infrared light to analyse reflected light energy from objects. From this information, it computes their unique molecular “fingerprints,” which is then referenced through a database to provide the user with all sorts of information about the object. The SCiO scanner has its origins in a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding scheme, which ran in 2014....

 

...Consumer Physics are selling the scanner on their website together with the mobile kit: more than a thousand developers, entrepreneurs and businesses have received their equipment. In effect, this is making the effort something of a collaboration and developers are already meeting to test and explore possible uses of the technology. Consumer Physics’ ideal is to create a platform allowing developer customers to innovate on uses of the technology whilst contributing to the underlying substance database. Dror said:

“We’re looking for developers, people with access to special materials that can help us scan and expand the database of the physical materials in the world..."

 

http://www.androidhe...ar-scanner.html

 

https://www.consumer...ics.com/myscio/

 

With all the group buys and people wanting to know exactly what they are taking around here, I think that this may be something that Longecity or us, its members, could really get behind!?
I'm surprised we missed this!?

 

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I'm surprised we missed this!?

 

We missed it simply because it seem to be just a big marketing hype and not much more!

 

What is disturbing about this product is the almost total lack of specification or detail about this revolutionary spectrometer. The only information given is that it is a NIR reflection spectrometer. The usefullness of even a high end NIR spectrometer is quite limited. For usefull molecular information, we need to use a far IR spectrometer and it require extensive sample preparation. Nothing allow me to think it is a Raman spectrometer and even if it were, it is still limited at usefulness when a molecular structure need to be elucidated. It seem the time of NMR spectroscopy (and the human interpreting the shifts) is not over yet.

 

Probably just some form of NIR spectrophotometry "figerprinting".