12.10.2012 20:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Using an iPhone to detect ear infections

It looks like researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have taken blogger Erica Sadun's "Look at your own ear" post from December 2011 to a new level. They've developed an iPhone accessory they call the Remotoscope to turn an iPhone into an otoscope -- that thing doctors usually put into your ear to peer inside. The Remotoscope puts a scope over the lens and flash on an iPhone making it easy to take pictures of a child's ear canal, while an app magnifies the image and sends it to a pediatrician. The idea is that parents could take images daily so that the pediatrician could monitor the in

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