Scanadu Scout ‘Tricorder’ Seeks Crowdfunding Ahead of FDA Approval

In January 2012, we introduced you to the Scanadu Medical Tricorder, a mobile diagnostic device that measures key vital signs and sends all information directly to your smartphone. Last week, the company launched a crowdfunding campaign to put the device — now called the Scanadu Scout — into production. The Scanadu Scout will be able to measure a person’s heart rate & ECG, blood pressure, temperature, respiratory rate and oximetry (blood oxygen level) within 10 seconds. The stats are displayed and stored on your smartphone. To bring the Scanadu Scout to the consumer market as a medical-grade device, the company has to file with the FDA. Scanadu’s Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the Scout provides participants early access to an exploratory version of the device, and invites them to opt in to what will be a usability study. The exploratory version will be used as a research tool and collect data that will be submitted in a marketing application to regulatory authorities. The 30-day campaign, which ends Friday, June 21, 2013, will offer a variety of perks from Scanadu. Supporters can reserve a first-edition of the Scanadu Scout for as little as $199 USD with an estimated delivery of March 2014. Scanadu is a Singularity University startup based at NASA Research Park in Moffett Field, California. As such, the device is built on the Micrium platform, NASA’s real-time operation system for SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) on the Rover Curios...
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