Tech Company Using Lasers and Smartphones to Scan Food for Nutrients and Poison

Tellspec is a spectrometer scanner and smartphone app that’s been developed to help you learn more about the things you put in your mouth. It works like magic. Just wave the beam across something you want to eat and it will tell you the nutritional content (or pesticides) via a smartphone app. It’s also possibly a scam.

Light is made up of particles called photons. When you beam the low-powered laser in the TellSpec scanner at the food, some of the photons are absorbed, raising the energy states of the molecules in the food.

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