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This incredible handheld scanner breaks down what you’re eating molecule by molecule

08
May
2014

Now this is an incredible way to count calories. Israeli company Consumer Physics has launched a new Kickstarter project that might be the most ambitious idea we’ve yet seen on the popular crowd-funding website. The product is called SCiO and it’s essentially a handheld spectrometer that breaks down an object’s compounds by scanning the way that light interacts with its molecular vibrations to determine its unique optical signature. Consumer Physics has posted several demonstration videos showing this handheld scanner’s many potential applications, including scanning your food to get calorie counts, scanning pills to see what chemical compounds they’re made of, and scanning your household plants and flowers to see if they need more water. It’s not hard to imagine that

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