Name: This Little Device Tells You What's Really in the Food You Eat
Uploaded: 2016-09-26T04:41:05.000Z
Duration: 3 min 22 s
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This is the port district of Tel Aviv. It’s a popular shopping area, and the perfect place

to meet up with Dror Sharon, a former member of the Air Force, and now the founder of Consumer Physics.

The company raised $2.7 million via a huge Kickstarter campaign so that it could

produce a device called the SCiO, which may soon change the way we shop for groceries.

When you think about it, how do you make your selection today?

So it’s good, but you might want to have some scientific backing to what you’re doing.

The SCiO replaces your grandmother’s squeeze test - sorry, grandma - to tell you the best

In an instant, it displays the food’s calorie, fat and sugar content.

It’s the quickest way to finding the perfect potato.

I mean this is like some Star Trek S*** right?!

A spectrometer usually looks like this. It’s a big ole hunk of scientific gear that can

peer into things and determine their properties. Rather incredibly, the SCiO shrinks much of

the same technology down onto a chip. It zaps an object with near infrared light, stirs

up its molecules and tells a story about the object. As people go around zapping things

with the SCiO, the objects get put into a database - this then becomes a giant log of

but how would the SCiO fair against one of mankind’s most mysterious creations.

This is the cheese test. Good ole American Velveeta.

So it’s almost spot on! What’s the fat percentage on the label?

The SCiO’s value should go well beyond kumquats and industrialized cheese.

It can help farmersdecide when to harvest their crops,

it can detect watered down fuel at shady gas stations,

and It can tell real medicines from fake pills.

When you think of health care actually, it's not about what you’re buying it's actually

and instead of sending stuff to the lab you’ll actually be able to measure it on yourself.

Dror even sees a future for this device in your bathroom.

You can measure teeth, you can measure saliva, you can measure hair, you can measure urine,

you can measure the other thing so there's a ton of stuff and people tell us that they’re

So I’m gonna take my smartphone into the toilet.

Well it'll probably be inside your toilet already.