Can one say today that they purchase a cellular phone mainly to use it to talk, without all the little features that comes with them? For the technologically savvy, the answer is “no”. Its inventor, Dr. Martin Cooper made the first US analogue mobile phone call in 1973.  The Motorola DynaTac has broken the barrier of calls being made from a stationary location when he made a call while walking to his rival, Dr. Joel Engel, from AT&T’s Bell Labs.  Three and half decades later, cellular phones have evolved into mini computers while still having the capability of making local (US) and international calls. They give us the ability to surf the net, read and write emails, use Microsoft office applications, sync with our PC, listen to any media, real-time GPS, games, bar-code scanner, take pictures and videos, and much more. The next step for cellular phone usage is in the medical field.

At the University of California Berkeley, “researchers have developed an add-on to a mobile phone that can take detailed images and then analyze them to diagnose diseases such as tuberculosis”.  David Breslauer and his colleagues hope that this device will be useful in the developing world; and where diagnostic medical issues are difficult, but the ownership and coverage of a cellular phone are commonplace.  Knowing these facts, they hope to make medical diagnoses and/or medical care portable at one’s own convenience without the inconvenience of going to the doctor’s office.

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