Researchers from the University of Cambridge and GlitterinTech, a startup founded by the same research group, have unveiled a fundamentally new type of optical spectrometer that delivers laboratory-grade precision in a device small enough to be embedded in portable and wearable technologies. By rethinking how spectra are measured and processed, the team has demonstrated a spectrometer costing only around $10, operating at a centimeter scale, and capable of applications ranging from industrial quality control to real-time health care monitoring.
All jokes aside, this is super exciting if you are interested in instrumentation for environmental monitoring.
All I’m hearing is “tricorder on the way”
As someone watching their diet right now: finally, accurate macro tracking. At least if they manage to do some sort of sensor fusion with the camera.