smartphone – Sophie Wrobel

3D-printing turns your smartphone into an optometry set

Print out a clip-on device and stick it onto your smartphone camera: that's all you need in order to take high-quality pictures of someone's retina and get a health professional to diagnose what's wrong with your eyesight. This is the type of innovation that we need more of – the type of inovation that puts… Read More »

Wearable computing will make your smartphone look outdated

Imagine a wearable chip embedded in an armband, which can do everything your smartphone can do with the same speed, but with a battery life of one month between recharges and is much smaller and flexibler. Does that sound impossible? Ineda claims otherwise, and their newly unveiled chips look pretty nice. This technology has a… Read More »