This
has got to be the coolest gadget by far! Med Sci students and Bio-Chemistry
peeps, you gotta put aside US$199 to buy this awesome new Kickstarter Gadget!
On
Tuesday April 29th 2014, Israeli based Consumer Physics had
kickstarted a pocket sized IR Spectrometer called the SCiO
Portable IR Spectrometer as reported in “THIS
POCKET-SIZED MOLECULAR SPECTROMETER TELLS YOU THE CHEMICAL MAKEUP OF FOODS”,
published April 29, 2014 By Drew Prindle, DigitalTrends.
The
details of the SCiO
Portable IR Spectrometer, whose name means “to possess knowledge of or be
skilled in a particular area”, can of course be read on their SciO’s
Kickstarter page which details the extensive R&D and prototyping Consumer Physics has
gone through to bring people this one-of-a-kind Gadget.
Currently
as of Thursday May 15th 2014, their kickstarter has surpassed their
goal of US$200,000 since launch with some 7,352 backers with a total of
US$1,511,500 of pledges. With the Funding round coming to a close on Sunday, June
15th 2014 2:00 PM EST, you still have 30 days to get in on what's
effectively a portable Star Trek Tricorder that works with your Apple iPhone
via an App.
The
US$199 SCiO
Portable IR Spectrometer will ship by December 2014 and already shows signs
of being a very popular kickstarted project brought to you by Consumer Physics.The
SCiO
Portable IR Spectrometer is very impressive and fitting with the current
trend among consumers of support Kickstarted projects, especially as getting in
on a Kickstarter may be a pledge as low as US$1!
I’ve
began tracking a few of these Crowd-funded projects such as the recent minted
US$169 Anova
Precision Cooker that’s gonna make Sous-Vide a more common form of cooking
as described in my blog article
entitled “US$169
Anova Precision Cooker is the Sous-Vide Immersion Cooker for the Masses –
Sous-Vide for the Regular At-home Chef is the George Foreman Grill of Immersion
Cooking Internet of Things”.
Many
of these Kickstarter Projects hold great promise. Not just because of the
innovative ideas coming to the fore that would otherwise be stifled by big
Corporate companies, but by virtue of how they are funded, opening up the
possibility that anyone can design a good product and get support in making it
big!
SCiO Portable IR
Spectrometer – Star Trek Tricorder that can scan the Molecular World
So
what exactly is this gadget and how does it work?
Basically
it's a hand-held IR (Infrared) Photo Spectrometer. It works by shining light in
the Infrared region on any item you want to analyze to determine its
composition. Objects reflect, refract and absorb light, which is of course
basic High School Physics.
These
temporarily Excited Electrons then fall back from their higher Orbitals
(Excited State) to their original Orbital (Ground State), once the IR Radiation
pulses off. In this process, they release this extra Energy as a quantum of Backscatter
Radiation, also in the same IR, but with a different Frequency and Energy level
equivalent to the difference between the Excited State and their Ground State.
The
SCiO
Portable IR Spectrometer detects that change by analyzing the reflected Backscatter
radiation in a manner similar to Diffraction and based on the Backscatter
radiation from the object, it can determine the composition of the object.
It
does this by communicating with your smartphone via Bluetooth. Then the SCiO
Portable IR Spectrometer App then sends the Backscatter IR Spectra
information over the Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) connection on
the smartphone or Tablet to Consumer Physics
Central Server Database of pre-scanned IR Spectra.
The
comparison is made and the results sent back to the Smartphone showing the
composition of the item you scanned in a matter of seconds! Amazingly, when
buyers scan unknown item that are not in the Database, the Consumer Physics digs
deep into other private Databases to identify the molecular composition of this
unknown item. Once identified, it’s added to their Database and made accessible
to others.
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