Smartphones

The mobile phone can provide data to predict the development of forest fires. Credit: The Science website via DALEE. The image should not be seen as a scientific image

The mobile phones can warn of forest fires and extreme weather conditions

A new study by Tel Aviv University found that the smart cell phones that are in the possession of each of us may help in collecting weather data (from the public) and in providing early warnings about weather conditions
electronic waste. Illustration: shutterstock

The environmental price of the smart phone and computing industry

Illustration: pixabay.

Is mobile photography on the way to trample classic photography?

The cell phone-based microscopy device and interface developed at UCLA [courtesy Ozcan Group at UCLA]

A smartphone that functions as a DNA microscope and virus detector

An example of the results obtained with the applet [courtesy of Ali Yetisen]

Smart phone tests kidneys