Thank you, science, for giving men across the globe an excuse to keep watching porn on their phones.
Medical researchers at Harvard University have developed a smartphone attachment that could offer cheap and simple home fertility tests for men. The device, which has a near 98 percent accuracy rate for detecting abnormal semen, wraps around smartphones like a charging case or cradle and contains a slot for a microchip slide for semen samples. Users can get results within five seconds after the sample is inserted.
Hadi Shafiee, an assistant professor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, expressed excitement about the device’s possibilities:
“This can make home fertility testing for men as simple as home pregnancy testing for women,” she said.
Traditional lab tests for male fertility can costs hundreds of dollars, whereas this new instrument provides a cheap, easy, alternative.
Its materials cost a mere $4.45, and the device relies upon the smartphone’s computing power to analyze the user’s samples. Other home male fertility tests exist, but they only measure sperm concentration while the Harvard device also measures motility.
Unfortunately for Apple users, initials tests only used Moto X, Moto G4 and LG G4 smartphones. Minor tweaks might make the testing kit iPhone compatible, but until then, sexually frustrated boyfriends might just have settle for long “bathroom breaks” for any stress-relief sessions.
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