Tuesday, November 9, 2010

STD Test? There's an app for that


Soon people will be able to take an STD test by peeing on a stick and sticking it in their cell phone in the Europe area. They said that millions of pounds will have been funded to this project in Britain where infections reached a record of over 400,000. "Your mobile phone can be your mobile doctor. It diagnoses whether you've got one of a range of STIs, such as chlamydia or gonorrhea and tells you where to go next to get treatment," Dr Tariq Sadiq, the sexual health expert from the University of London who is leading the project

how would you feel downloading an app on your phone and then testing yourself for an STD? Talk about true privacy there!

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/mobile-phone-std-test--killer-app-or-fantasy-20101109-17lbl.html

5 comments:

Megan Moede said...

Wow. That's insane. It seems like there's an app for everything these days!

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OliviaTapley said...

This is crazy! I think the younger generations will get a use out of this! HA

Tisha said...

That's really bizarre anyone would even think of this idea! Seriously though, that's weird. I heard there's a lie detector app., now that's cool. But an app for checking STDs?! That's pushin it!