SCio has a SDK too.

What you think no more spiked drinks lol. just test the drink.

A $449 price tag for the SDK? Big corps may be able to pull that off for time tested products, but for a brand new company, with a brand new product that few people have heard of, they are going to have trouble getting people on board.

Awesome concept, but seems to mostly be an app that only works by being connected to their server, and even the SDK only works on particular platforms and there's no actual hardware info.

+ The real SDK that can get raw readings at all costs $999, and requires signing a non-compete (?)..

+ http://www.cnet.com/news/kickstarter-science-beware-the-marketing-hype/

Wauw, that kind of sensor should be in every phone.

But needing an internet connection and access to some service in the cloud? Ridiculous. I cant see any good reason for that, other than lock-in.

Wauw, that kind of sensor should be in every phone.



But needing an internet connection and access to some service in the cloud? Ridiculous. I cant see any good reason for that, other than lock-in.

"To deliver relevant information in real time, SCiO communicates the spectrum to your smartphone app via Bluetooth, which in turn forwards it to a cloud-based service. Advanced algorithms analyze the spectrum and within seconds deliver information regarding the analyzed sample back to the smartphone to be presented in real time to the user."

Basically, it crowdsources data collection in order to actually match the spectrum with its corresponding physical object.

This sounds like a really cool device - my first thought was that most teenage girls should have this at parties to check if the punch has been drugged. I also lol'd at the suggestion of scanning USD dollars to help your counterfeiting abilities before I realized they were suggesting using it to detect counterfeits.

It might also be useful in cooking - if you input a recipe and the device detects: "Your measurements were off, you need to add another 0.2 teaspoons of sugar, and a dash of salt", or "You've over-handled your pie crust, which melted the crisco and will result in it being less flaky, but you can do X and Y to salvage it."

Wauw, that kind of sensor should be in every phone.

No thanks. It's bad enough that most laptops and smartphones contain standard pieces that I don't want but am forced to pay for anyway. Not everyone wants to pay for forward and (multiple) backward facing cameras, external speakers, microphones (in laptop screens), bluetooth chips, and so on.

Not really sure how it works, or how precise it is...but if it will ask a server for what the data collected is...does it means its pretty "corruptible"?...Im being (totally lunatic) conspiratorial here..but say ppl start using to detect if foods are contaminated, like in brazil where they mixed caustic soda in the milk for more volume..or if they putting mind controlling substances in the water <3.

All the bad guys need to do is pay the guys before hand..so when the "signature" scanned hits the server, they deliver the fake answer..

Theres lot of stuff like that, like lots of ppl say they put anabolics on shakes that are supposed to be just protein/albumin and stuff like that..

Say coca cola is putting way more sugar/sodio than actually informed..stuff like that..

That product is way too much revolutionary o.o

No thanks. It's bad enough that most laptops and smartphones contain standard pieces that I don't want but am forced to pay for anyway. Not everyone wants to pay for forward and (multiple) backward facing cameras, external speakers, microphones (in laptop screens), bluetooth chips, and so on.

Just about every laptop in existence for the last 6 years has had a web cam + mic embedded in the screen ( at least the ones I have dealt with )

Hand held analyzers, as shown in this article, currently cost over $6,000 used .

I am usually skeptical about kickstarters and indiegogo funded products such as this. There are just too many other "revolutionary" products on kickstarter that eventually don't deliver. I will have to see it to believe it.

How much accurate could be that "thing"?

It would be lovely to use it in the grocery/supermarket to avoid bad food (ie: unripe fruits/vegetables, defrost meat, etc)