You know those elephant-sized medical scanners? Totally amazing machines, sure, but things like that arent apt to be shipped into obscure jungles throughout Africa. Thankfully, a team of researchers have developed something that could bring medical scanning to an even larger chunk of the world: a real live Tricorder. Of course, its not really going by that moniker, but the diminutive scanner is able to interface with a cellphone via USB and utilize its 3G / WiFi access to send raw scan data to servers and receive images back. Granted, you wont get any high-resolution viewing from your average mobile, but its certainly a step in the right direction.
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