Smartphone diagnostics

An app will detect if your milk is spoiled using a smartphone’s built-in vibration motor – and you don’t need to open the carton. According to the researchers behind the tech, it could help prevent sickness and liters of the white stuff being poured down the drain.

One area where the modern smartphone has come to show incredible amounts of promise is in medical diagnostics, where they could soon reshape how we detect diabetes, gauge female fertility, spot skin cancers, and much more.