Drug test on your smartphone. The new invention students - Gazeta.pl

– The study is based on an analysis of the eye, and then detecting the anomaly caused him taking drugs. The whole thing is extremely easy to use. The only thing that is needed to perform the measurement, the phone application loaded street, which then must be applied to the eye. The whole process takes a few seconds, compared with the existing drug testing is a very good result. The application can be used wielorazowo – says Charles Stosik, a representative team of the Technical University of Gdansk.

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This will enable to assess the size of the pupil, depending on the ambient factors, including the response to light stimulus. The application also analyzes the color of eye protein.

Authors invention Stosik Charles, Paul Nowakowski and Matthew Smith, forming a team WeRule, casual students of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics PG.

From 8 to 11 July will present its patent, which they called Modern Drug Test, the global finals of the Imagine Cup technology in St. Petersburg. Apart from them for prizes, with a total prize of 300 thousand. dollars will fight 305 young innovators from around the world.

– We are honored that we can represent our country – say students from Gdansk.

Polish students so far in the world finals until 21 times on the podium, winning seven times the first place eight times a second and third six times. Every year the finals are held in a different location, so far took place such as Spain, Japan, India, Australia, and in 2010 in Poland.

Successful Stosik

About Karl pile we wrote last year, when he was runner-up the Imagine Cup 2012 in Australia. He presented then has developed for this application for reading Braille on a smartphone. Last year’s participation in the World Finals competition in Sidney earned him the title of vice-champion of the world and a check for four thousand. dollars.

His previous invention – ZZ Braille Reader – is an application that allows blind people to read on your e-books, notes, and other texts. The program is designed primarily for people with visual impairments, but thanks to the innovative user interface application can be used by both the blind and the sighted. – It may for example be used to study Braille – explains Stosik. – Double zet preceding the application name ZZ Braille Reader allows blind users to intuitively start, because it will always last on the list of applications – added.

Where did the idea for such an application? – I just wanted to do something fun and useful. And it worked.