FROM: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/13/korea_mobile_phone_liver/

Test your liver... with your phone
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By James Sherwood [More by this author]
13th December 2007 12:16 GMT

If you're worried that your liver could be in for some punishment this
Christmas, then don't. Just reach for your mobile phone and check its
health on the fly.
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The mobile phone liver sensor
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Boffins from the Korean Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology have
created a liver health senor that connects to your mobile phone.
Technical details are still sketchy, but it apparently reminds users
when it's time to measure their liver health, which it do
es by checking two enzymes in your bloodstream. A picture leaked
online shows the sensor connected to a handset via its power charger
port.

The sensor then uses the handset to send its findings to a
participating hospital for analysis, from where a doctor presumably
gives you a call if, well, it's time to cut back on the Egg Nog and
Brandy shots.

The institute's researchers are believed to have already filed a
patent application in Korea and abroad, so it may not be long before
we're all waiting for that dreaded call from the doctor. (R)

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