Lab on a chip turns smart phones into mobile disease clinics

Researchers have designed a cheap, easy-to-use smart phone attachment (shown above) that can test patients for multiple deadly infectious diseases in 15 minutes. All it takes is a drop of blood from a finger prick. Pressing the device’s big black button creates a vacuum that sucks the blood into a maze of tiny channels within its disposable credit card–sized cartridge.

The loud-mouthed types keep on exhorting money, accusing rich (mostly white) countries of racism, accusing rich (mostly white) countries of genocide, demanding that doctors and medical supplies be sent to poor countries to stem the horrific death toll of disease, blah blah blah.

Meanwhile, the scientists and engineers keep on cranking out their miracles. Kind of makes you wonder which side gets more accomplished, eh?