'SCiO', a pocket scanner device was recently launched through a Kickstarter campaign that will allow its users to check the nutritional value of their food and will instant breakdown the alcohol, sugar, or calorie content before consuming them.
The USB-shaped device developed by Israeli start-up Consumer Physics uses spectrometry to read the "molecular fingerprint' of an object that shines near Infra-Red light on it which will stimulate the molecules and then records their reactions, CNN.com reported.
Dr Bryan Curtiss, molecular scientist and head of technology at spectrometry firm ASDI said that what they did was quite a clever approach as the device only measures the spectrum, and then applied calibration in the algorithm cloud and sent results, so the lab system and software had been centralized.
