Drug counterfeiting will soon be dead history – to be sure the drugs you bought from that shop is the real deal, you may need some expensive laboratory equipment and highly trained personnel or some government agency to do this on behalf of the public. But, this may soon be changing.

Lots of companies, products, and startup initiatives have been pushing the frontiers of this technology over the years – determined to bring high-end analytics to our fingertips. SCiO by Consumer Physics is one of such. The company has developed one of the world’s first molecular sensor that fits in the palm of your hand. With this device, you can scan just about anything and get instant relevant information directly to your smartphone.

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SCiO combines two technology components – the revolutionary SCiO Sensor and the SCiO Cloud. They in effect have miniaturized the traditional Near Infrared Spectrometer and the patented optical head is now only a few millimeters in size in each dimension. This optical head provides sensitivity and accuracy levels on par with the best bench spectrometers which cost a lot of money and require specialized training to use. Low power consumption and zero warm up time make it highly responsive and efficient, allowing it to perform hundreds of scans from a small rechargeable battery.

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