SCIO portable spectrometer scored $ 1.3 million on Kickstarter instead of 200 thousand

On Habré, a portable SCiO spectrometer has already been described, a small device that allows determining the composition of any materials, although organic, although not.

The creators of the device describe it as a molecular scanner, which can be very useful in everyday life (and for scientists, probably, such a device will be an indispensable assistant).
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Little was said about how to use the device, and this was continued. I’ll say right away that this spectrometer on the kickstarter has already collected 1.3 million dollars instead of 200 thousand, and until the end of the fundraising another 33 days.

Typically, spectrometers are very expensive, their price is many thousands and tens of thousands of dollars. In addition, such devices can not be called portable.

Well, the SCiO project (this is an infrared spectrometer , as suggested in the comments) has the size of a large flash drive, and its price is about $ 300 (“early birds” on Kickstarter can get a device for $ 199).



What can the device be used for? Here are some ways:

- find out the composition of drugs that you buy at the pharmacy. In any instruction there is a description of the composition, which can now be checked;
- find out how many calories are in your food, any;
- find out how ripe a vegetable or fruit that you are going to buy;
- find out whether your home plants feel well;
- find out what the composition of the soil that you use for your plants;
- find out what additives are included in the products that you buy at the nearest supermarket;
- find out how much quality alcoholic drink you bought just (find out right away, and not in the morning, when your head hurts after half a glass of drunk);
- check the conformity of the quality / composition of products, both food and non-food, declared by the manufacturer.





As you can see, the range of capabilities of the device is very large. All scan data is sent wirelessly to a smartphone, where the application processes the information received, giving the analysis results to the user.

Device characteristics



The device is compatible with iOS 5 and higher, Android 4.3.

The device will be on sale in December of this year.

Several applications have been created for the device, each of which performs a limited set of functions:



Here are some more videos with a demonstration of the device:





Via kickstarter