Scio Pocket 'Food-Sniffing' Sensor now Shipping to Devs

Pocket Friendly Molecular Sensor – Instant Information on Food

Consumer Physics, the company behind Scio, has announced the pocket friendly molecular sensor which had been a Kickstarter sensation in 2014.Scio had hit its Kickstarter goal within 24 hours in 2014 and towards the end had raised 1,381% of its initial funding goal. Thereafter the device had been redesigned several times and there had been stress on building an ecosystem for developers.

 The company is now making efforts in shipping early SDK units to the researcher community with the possibility that several of those who tend to receive their kit from the early shipment would be super early-bird backers who managed to get Scios at a price of only $149. Dror Sharon, CEO of Consumer Physics had commented that `it had been over four years since the work on Scio had commenced and the Kickstarter campaign had been part of an amazing journey.

The greatest value obtained from the campaign had been highly enthusiastic and engaged community of early adopters, developers, scientists and more Scio explorers’.Scio is for those who would prefer instant information regarding the things they interact with and take in daily. It is beneficial for those who would want help in developing a quick expanding database of valuable knowledge which would be of advantage to the community of users.

Power of Near-Infrared – NIR Spectroscopy

With the potentials of identifying food as well as distinguishing between kinds of pills by only scanning their molecular fingerprints, it was a popular sensor on Kickstarter. Besides identifying objects, it can also provide a breakdown of the several chemicals in it.

Scio tends to operate due to the power of near-infrared –NIR spectroscopy that has the possibilities of scanning physical materials for signs of these fingerprints and is an intensely downsized version of a substantial as well as a very pricey kind of equipment which is known as a lab spectrometer. When one gets their Scio, they will be capable of analysing food, medications and plants.

 For instance, one could get nutritional facts regarding the various types of food like dairy products, fruits and vegetables, knowing the well-being of popular plants, in identifying capsules comprising of medicine and nutritional supplements and help to build the world’s first database of matter. Other apps for drinks, meats, salad dressing, ripeness and much more would be released on a regular basis when the database tends to expand.

Scio – Not a Medical Device for Treating/Preventing Medical Conditions

These are some of the few of the starter applications which one could use on receiving the Scio and after its release, new applications would be created and released regularly. The prospects of Scio applications seems to be endless like for instance, in future one could utilise Scio in measuring properties of cosmetics, flora, clothes, soil, together with precious stones, leather, oils, plastics, rubber etc.

However, users are cautioned that Scio is not a medical device and should not be utilised in treating or preventing medical conditions like allergies. The car clicker sized machines depends on spectroscopy like the light based technology which astronomers tend to use in determining the composition of stars.

While performing a scan, Scio’s tiny optical sensor captures the molecular footprint of the item, measures how those molecules seem to interact with light and develops a barcode like data which the Scio’s in-house app changes into the data it sends to the phone.