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"STD Test? There's an App for That"
New York Observer ^ | 11/8/10 | STD Test? There's an App for That

Posted on 11/08/2010 2:44:04 PM PST by mkmensinger

British health officials are hard at work on a new app that will allow users to pee into their cell phones and find out within minutes if they have an STD."

(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cellphone; stdtest
I'd love to hear the calls to tech support.
1 posted on 11/08/2010 2:44:08 PM PST by mkmensinger
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To: mkmensinger

This has to be the funniest thing I’ve read all day And it doesn’t appear to be a joke.


2 posted on 11/08/2010 2:46:00 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: mkmensinger
"Hey, can I borrow your phone for a few minutes?"
3 posted on 11/08/2010 2:49:08 PM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: mkmensinger

The idea of that computer chip isn’t so different from the way glucose meters work. You put a very small drop of blood on a metering strip that’s been inserted in a meter that’s about half the size of a cellphone and get you blood glucose in 5 seconds.


4 posted on 11/08/2010 2:55:03 PM PST by libstripper
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To: mkmensinger

Too funny and laughed when I saw this! Now watch idiots piss on their phone thinking liquids and electricity mix. Priceless....


5 posted on 11/08/2010 3:00:51 PM PST by Sprite518
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To: mkmensinger

Ew. Remind me not to borrow a phone.


6 posted on 11/08/2010 3:15:43 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: libstripper
a meter that’s about half the size of a cellphone

a 6'6" long cellphone!
7 posted on 11/08/2010 3:16:31 PM PST by kenavi (The good ol' US of A: 57 state laboratories for the future.)
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