Young people already use their phones to share their most personal details with them in their social circles, but a new project in the United Kingdom could take the cell phone "intimacy" to a whole new level. According to a recent Guardian report, researchers have begun to develop a new technology that allows users to place a sample of urine or saliva on a small chip and insert it into their mobile phones for the detection of sexually transmitted diseases ( STDs).
It may seem like a joke - and a very unhealthy for one - but it's all real. Six and a half million dollar research project, part of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration aims to create a device now as a way to encourage young people who are otherwise too scared or intimidated to go to a doctor to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases if they think they can have one.
"Your mobile phone can be your doctor mobile", said Dr Tariq Sadiq, professor and consultant in sexual health and HIV in St. George's, University of London, and project leader. "Diagnosis, if you a certain number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) like chlamydia or gonorrhea and tells you where to go for treatment. "
Interestingly, the technique has the potential to be even more embarrassing than an invasion of privacy should see a doctor, because the test results are tied directly to the owner of the phone. And what happens to these results when they are defined in the report is unclear.
In addition, researchers have not addressed the negative consequences of placing potentially contaminated body fluids in mobile devices that are managed by more than personal users.
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