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.
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.
All I’m hearing is “tricorder on the way”