Has my liver exploded? Your phone knows

Story posted on: December 13, 2007. Filed in: others.

Man, we'll admit we've had as many drunken nights as the best of the worst college students. But what sort of damage have we done to out liver with those (amazingly fun) nights of drunken stupors? Boffins from the Korean Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology have created a liver checking sensor which plugs right into your mobile device.

The sensor plugs into your device through the battery charge port and runs a check on two enzymes in your blood. After it checks these levels, the numbers are sent to a participating hospital, at which point the doctors will notify you if your liver has exploded. Details are still sketchy, but word is that the Korean designers have already filed for a patent on the device.

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