Category: Scientific Devices

Bust that Perp: The Portable Laser Drug Scanner

Dubbed the “TruNarc” (oh jeez, did they have to?), this handheld drug scanner from Thermo Scientific uses Raman spectroscopy technology to scan and identify narcotics, precursors, and cutting…

Near-Immediate Results On-the-Spot: The Traveling Laboratory

Want to find out if you have Ebola virus disease, SARS, H5N1 avian flu, or some other bat-s@#$ crazy, life-threatening illness that is sure to end all mankind?…

Smart-Device Science On-the-Go: The Tiny Conversion Lens

We were promised years ago that smart devices would change everything, that the uses they could be put to would be limited only by our imaginations, and that…