Saturday, November 13, 2010

Week 6 BOC: There's an App for That!


In the U.S. an average of 200 million adults was diagnoses with an STD. Just about everyone now owns a smart phone. What if there was an app that could test you for a STD?  “In an effort to fight the growing occurrence–especially among children and teens--of sexually transmitted disease, U.K. developers are currently designing a cell phone application that could diagnose these illnesses remotely.” (http://www.afro.com/sections/news/afro_briefs/story.htm?storyid=3172) The app uses a chip that, when smeared with urine or saliva can be inserted into a cell phone or computer and can evaluate rather or not you have an STD. When many people losing their jobs and health benefits, I can kind of see where someone might have came up with this idea. This is really funny to me. Las Vegas' #1 cell phone app used.

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