Re: [DIYbio] Amazon unintentionally solves "low cost lab automation device" challenges

On Dec 3, 2015 5:24 PM, "Simon Quellen Field" <sfield@scitoys.com> wrote:
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> ​Since the customer has already paid for a very nice phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer, making him pay another $30 for an inferior user interface (smaller screen, stuck to the device, etc.) will seldom be optimal.

My thoughts on that were toward a sterile lab, cleanroom, or any environment where a dirty dirty smartphone/tablet would be disallowed for consistency of the environment. Or a lab which works on harmful stuff, say infectious or poisonous... I wouldn't want to whip out my phone casually in there. In fact I'd probably want most/all things in the lab to be able to be dipped in a sterilization solution of bleach or something (This was an actual requirement of the tablets used during the Ebola outbreak not too long ago).

If the devices were connected wirelessly, and your lab didn't degrade the WiFi/radio signal appreciably, your personal smartphone/tablet might still connect when you're outside the lab containment area.

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