A Scanner can count calories in your food

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Anyone conscious about what they eat will be happy to hear about a device in the making from Consumer Physics that can tell you how many calories is in that piece of food you are thinking of eating. On top of that it will tell you the amount of fat and protein and other nutritional information and even advise you if fruit is ripe enough to eat. The SCiO molecular scanner offers results in real time which are sent toan app on the user’s smartphone through Bluetooth. Expected in fall 2014 the scanner will come with apps that are going to help consumers identify the composition of food, medications and plants.

The scanner might sound like something that you would see one of the team in Star Trek using, but the Israeli inventors promise that the handheld scanner can be used for checking anything from the amount of calories to checking what drugs are in your medication. The company behind it plan on expanding it so the scanner can be used as a medical sensor, in this case it could be used for analysing bodily fluids and human tissue.

Source : http://interestingengineering.com/