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[YOLF]

Perhaps we could mobilize a community effort to ensure that this meets our needs and will help us take supplements more efficiently?

Currently it measures antioxidants and some other things, but nothing but the C-Reactive protein sticks out to me. It would be possible I'm guessing they have plans to roll out alot more tests. I'm not seeing anything that tells us how it works enough that we could evaluate it's future prospects for measuring things, but I'd definitely like to know if it could be used to generate data from our community that could help us defeat and reverse aging.

http://www.biozoom.net/technology.php

I'd definitely like to see us working together to get as much out of this as possible and hopefully the subscription model won't cost more than $10/month.

[niner]

Interesting device. It doesn't look like it's ready yet- the site seems to be aimed at finding investment partners. There's no data on the accuracy of the device. It's doing optical spectroscopy through the skin, which is a kind of cool idea, but does it work? If so, how well? I think this is something to keep your eye on. It gives us a hint about what the future might look like. This would be the Star Trek Tricorder.

[YOLF]

Interesting device. It doesn't look like it's ready yet- the site seems to be aimed at finding investment partners. There's no data on the accuracy of the device. It's doing optical spectroscopy through the skin, which is a kind of cool idea, but does it work? If so, how well? I think this is something to keep your eye on. It gives us a hint about what the future might look like. This would be the Star Trek Tricorder.

Well at least the first iteration of tricorder. I'd really like to know more about how it works... I wonder why they haven't given more details on it... I'm assuming it's already patented. I've been wanting something like this for some time.

[hav]

Just did a quick search for information on the claimed medical validation of the algorithm their servers run but came up empty. Except for repeated use of the phrase in their advertising. I did find references to an SEC K8 filing, however, which I found online that included a letter from Dr. Lademann of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin as well the full text of this study:

Comparison of two methods for noninvasive determination of carotenoids in human and animal skin: Raman spectroscopy versus reflection spectroscopy.

Based on compelling in vivo and in vitro studies on human skin, carotenoids are thought to be of great interest as powerful antioxidants acting to prevent free-radical-induced damages, including premature skin ageing and the development of skin diseases such as cancer. Among the available techniques that are suitable for noninvasive determination of carotenoids in human skin, are resonance Raman spectroscopy (RRS) and reflection spectroscopy (RS). For RS, a LED-based miniaturized spectroscopic system (MSS) was developed for noninvasive measurement of carotenoids in human skin. The optimization and subsequent calibration of the MSS was performed with the use of RRS. A strong correlation between the carotenoid concentration determined by the RS and for the RRS system was achieved for human skin in vivo (R = 0.88) and for bovine udder skin in vitro (R = 0.81).

Apparently, all the studies so far except the one above used Raman RSS devices and the RS LED-based NSS device compared above is the BioZoom product.

Howard

[YOLF]

So it still needs some tuning for accuracy. It looks like it may be worthwhile. I'd like to see some more tests and a list of targets that they will be trying to detect.