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Scanadu Scout to replace a huge number of medical devices, with the help of which you need to look after their health. On website Developers announced that it will combine the functions of the thermometer, tonometer, ECG and pulse oximeter, and the fit in any pocket.
How need a universal measuring instrument, ask the person who has once taken up the pressure on public transport, parents trying to measure the temperature of the moving child or athletes who are forced to follow the frequency pulse. What is needed, and needed badly, so the project collected more than half a million dollars for development on kraudfandingovoy site.
Impression of the appearance Scanadu Scout meets expectations: truly compact device is very light, with pleasant forms. Judging by the description in the brief instructions on the package (another manual is not provided), it is very easy to use. app and follow its instructions you need to download. Advanced medical technologies are available to owners of iPhone 4s, 5, 5s, and with the latest version of iOS, Samsung Galaxy S4 and S5, Nexus 4, 5.
The first disappointment: the stated Scanadu cardiogram at the moment does not remove, but the developers promise that this time will come. It remains to believe, to hope and to use what is already available.
Run the application that asks for a patient parameters: weight, height, age and gender. While the rule of "one application - one patient", ie users can not accommodate change. If you have a family, for example, three people, then all three of the above smartphones need to measure the pressure and temperature.
Next, the application offers to start the fun that is to be scanned. What you need to do it is clearly shown in the pictures. Turn on Bluetooth, run the scanner, take it in your left hand and puts just above his left eyebrow to the skin. Sit need right quietly as with other medical measurements, not breathe hold the device steady.
At this stage it manifested bug: Scan was not immediately apparent. The device is switched off after a certain time itself, and does not always succeed in this period to take readings, it is necessary to measure again.
When the results appear on the smartphone screen, they surprised us. Firstly, the fact that a successful scan took several seconds. Secondly, it was found that the test body temperature above 37 ° C. Reference to the fact that the device inflates readings could not be found in the materials. Each is about, what sensations fill the body when the temperature rises, so we thought crept into his head that Scanadu wrong.
I had to repeat the test, armed with a mercury thermometer and electronic tonometer with proven accuracy.
It turned out that the scanner distorts the information not only on the temperature. Differences in systolic blood pressure readings of conventional tonometer and Scanadu amounted to 10 (!) Mm Hg. Tonometer showed my "working" 107/65 and Scanadu offered to settle on the sofa with a mug of strong tea, justifying herself pressure 97/61. Heart rate (ie, heart rate) scanner identified correctly. But with the temperature again bad luck. Ordinary mercury thermometer showed 36.8 ° C, and Scanadu take readings simply refused.
The only option that we could not immediately verify the results were oximetry.
Having dealt with the errors, a look at the analytical capabilities of the application: running your own magazine reading, the ability to add tags to each dimension (to record the conditions in which the removed indications). This helps track changes and features of the body's reactions to different conditions.
I want to believe that developers will be able to bring the scanner to the level of accurate and affordable device, because it is a very correct and promising niche. Scanadu necessary and useful - such as he is conceived. Yes, it is undergoing a period of development, so more "raw", designed for the study. But it's not even modern technology, this technology of the future.
Editorial Layfhakera thanks Store madrobots.ruWho sent us Scanadu Scout for an honest review and helped test the new product. Our readers store also offers to join the science and gives a promotional code for 1000 rubles for the purchase of the instrument. 1000SCANADU code is valid for one month from the date of publication.
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