Institute For The Future

More from NTT Docomo

Richard has already posted something about Docomo's recent release of the first "healthphone."  Today I came across a news item from March, which discussed Docomo's efforts to develop a phone with built-in bio-sensing technology.   The company

hopes some future cell phones will contain "DNA chips," devices capable of analyzing molecules from the user's body, to provide a warning about a possible virus, high-levels of stress or other factors that might affect health.

But for the DNA chips to get the samples required, the molecules to be analysed must be transported into the phone from the user's body. This is where the latest research in so-called "molecular communications" comes in.

Mobile health on a nano-level.