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Real leather scan technology smashes funding target in two days

01/05/2014
Real leather scan technology smashes funding target in two days
An Israeli technology company has launched a kickstarter funding campaign online to allow it to develop a portable, affordable scanning tool that, among other uses, will be able to tell consumers instantly if a finished product is made of leather or of a synthetic substitute.

Tel Aviv-based Consumer Physics has developed a working prototype of the scanner, which it calls Scio, from the Latin for ‘I know’. It launched the kickstarter campaign on April 29, aiming to raise $200,000 in 45 days, which it said it would use to bring Scio scanners to market by December 2014. Within just two days, the total funding Consumer Physics had received from backers for Scio was more than $350,000.

Scio uses Near Infra-Red (NIR) spectroscopy to detect the content of consumer products. Because each type of molecule vibrates in a unique way, these vibrations interact with light to create what the Israeli company calls “a unique optical signature” and it’s this signature that Scio can read and make available to consumers through a Bluetooth connection to a smartphone.



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