Smartphones Could Be ‘Eye-Phones’ Thanks To Affordable Devices

Smartphones Could Be ‘Eye Phones’ Thanks To Affordable DevicesStanford ophthalmologists might usher in a new use for modern day smartphones with low-cost devices that turn your communications device into an ‘eye-phone’, which might be confused by some to be the iPhone if it were not spelled out properly. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have come up with a couple of affordable adapters which would allow a smartphone to shoot high-quality images of the front and back of the eye. These adapters would make it a snap for anyone with minimal training to snap a photo of the eye, sharing it without any security worries with other health practitioners, or to stash it in the patient’s electronic record.

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