Published on July 24, 2017
There’s no shortage of groundbreaking new technology at CES, but even among a sea of cutting-edge gadgets, every year we still manage to stumble across something that makes everything else we’ve seen look like a fossil. This year, it was Scio.
In short, it’s a handheld molecular spectrometer. We’ll get into why that’s amazing in a second, but for those of you who might’ve missed the Kickstarter project, Scio allows you to scan practically anything — foods, drinks, pills, plants, and more — and get detailed information on the object’s chemical makeup.