Ask HN: Is there way you can covert smartphone to a no contact thermometer?

9 points·shreyshrey··3 comments

Wondering is there an infrared dongle that can convert your phone to a no contact thermometer to read body temperature?

IDK what the standard error is for medical temperature estimation with an e.g. FLIR ONE thermal imaging camera for an Android/iOS device. https://www.flir.com/applications/home-outdoor/

I'd imagine that sanitization would be crucial for any clinical setting.

(Edit) "Prediction of brain tissue temperature using near-infrared spectroscopy" (2017) Neurophotonics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5469395/

I've got one of these and it's really good. The app sometimes get stuck, probably because it gets too much data and my phone is not fast enough.