Meet Scio, The Real Star Trek Tri Quarter
Real Star Trek Tri Quarter? The Scio can analyze the molecular properties of anything instantly.
Wondering how nutritious that food is, if that plant needs water, or just what that misplaced pill is? Well, the makers of SCiO claim that their device is able to tell you all of those things, plus a lot more. To use it, you just scan the item in question for one or two seconds, then check the readout on a Bluetooth 4.0-linked smartphone.
SCiO is actually a miniature spectroscope. Like the bigger, more expensive laboratory-grade models it’s based on, it works by shining near-infrared light on materials, exciting their molecules in the process. By analyzing the light that’s reflected off those vibrating molecules, it’s reportedly possible to identify them by their unique optical signature, and thus determine the chemical composition of any object.
