Will Smartphone Soon Become Your Doctor?

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Smartphones are very usefull devices not just for calling and surfing the internet. Smartphone applications can help you organise your time and finances. With smartphone you can play games ,you can use it for scanning documents or to measure distances. Usability of Smartphones is increasing rapidly and in the near future Smartphones will be used for many more activities as today. Year 2012 was a year of many scientific discoveries, which could soon evolute Smartphones into your personal health device, which could detect if you are ill. Scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science of Technology (KAIST) developed a touch-screen which is able to recognize DNA molecules with nearly 100 percent accuracy, reportes The Asahi Shimbun. Korean scientists believe that equal results are possible also for proteins – this would transform Smartphone also into device for illness detection and could even tell you if you have a cancer.

This new technology will come into use in near future but allready today Samrtphones are very usefeull with some very interesting health applications. La Times published list of 5 Cellphone apps that can help you monitor blood pressure, check ears, test eyesight and gauge blood sugar.