{"id":2277,"date":"2017-01-06T14:29:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T14:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.com\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2017-01-06T14:29:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T14:29:52","slug":"smartphones-can-almost-anything-molecular-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/01\/06\/smartphones-can-almost-anything-molecular-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphones can do almost anything, but how about molecular physics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli startup has embedded a molecular sensor called Scio in a new smartphone that can analyze any material \u2014 whether that\u2019s the nutritional content of an apple or a person\u2019s body fat.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nConsumer Physics\u2019 scanners use infrared light to analyze molecular structure. The startup has been developing them for a few years, but this is the first time it\u2019s embedded in a mobile device \u2014 one from Chinese phone manufacturer Changhong.<\/p>\n<p>Is that a little too much science to carry around in your pocket?<\/p>\n<p>Consumer Physics CEO Dror Sharon says knowledge is power. He explains, \u201cWhen we go out and buy stuff, eat stuff, drink stuff, we think we know what\u2019s in there, but we have no clue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pricing and availability for the phone will be announced Friday at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas.\u2014AP<\/p>\n<p>Image: \/www.consumerphysics.com\/myscio\/scio\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli startup has embedded a molecular sensor called Scio in a new smartphone that can analyze any material \u2014 whether that\u2019s the nutritional content of an apple or a person\u2019s body fat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}