Just pee into your phoneFollow

Alma's right, everyone else is wrong, yadda yadda yadda...

You were dropped as a baby. A lot.

A) I never said people who have smart phones might "feel the necessity to be constantly checked for STIs."

B) Had I, there is no reason to believe that a stand alone, hand held test with (near)real time results available would be any more accurate or effective than a purpose built peripheral for a smart phone.

C) Applications are portable, as in they can be "ported" to different platforms, in many cases with little effort.

D) If you think any "new device" built for fluid testing would use some revolutionary new hardware and software purpose built for the at home medical test market, you're stoned.

E) Smart phones have interface ports. Interface ports allow you to add anything not already in the device, including a ham sandwich.

In conclusion, you're a f'ucking wast of oxygen. Send me a headshot and I will forward it to NARAL so you can be the poster child for retroactive abortion.

This is being pushed by England and the expected cost for the disposable things that plug into your phone are approximately $1.50 each.

Edited, Nov 12th 2010 3:34pm by Xsarus

What's the big deal about pee? There's hardly any bacteria, and any viruses present are ones you already have. It's not that gross. Well, my own pee anyway. Other people's pee is gross.

So are soda and alcohol, but I don't see a lot of people concerned about those.

Given that allakhazam posters are the only people that I've heard that don't see a problem with it, uh it's very simple to refuse your claim. Every person's opinion IRL that I've heard thought the concept of urinating on your phone was pretty disgusting. As I mentioned earlier, I heard this topic first on the radio as a joke, like "WTF would anyone do this?".

Because I have yet met anyone outside of allakhazam that doesn't see an issue with this, I will stand by my claim. It's really not that serious for your cell phone to test STI's through urination.

What you are doing is arguing that somehow there will be some huge cost involved, when in actuality smart phones are already being produced. I saw smart phones today for little over a $100. If this application is so basic and simple, an actual device would cost minimal.

Even then, if the cost is sooooo much for you to create your own device, then partner with an already existing company making the device. In either case, you would make more money.

I'm not sure what planet you're living in, but there are stigmas involved with certain bodily wastes. Your toilet seat has less germs than your kitchen sink, which one are people more likely to touch or eat from? My point exactly.

Your only argument is that people wont put out the money and that's blatantly false. Once again, the need to have the newest and "best" thing completely trumps the need of versatility. Think about all the people who bought iPod Touches just to touch their screens as they listen to music? How many people went out and bought Blu-Ray movies of DVD's that they already owned? How many people upgraded to the highest Internet speeds so they can check their email? Does anyone even know how many times Dragonball Z has been re-re-released? How many MAC users do you know have some combination of an iPod, iPad, iPhone and a macbook?

The reality is, rather you want to accept it or not, people are more than willing to dish out money for minor upgrades or even beautified sidegrades. Knowing this and the fact that people generally don't like to have physical contact with their snot, urine, ***** or any other fluids/solids that come from our body, it is very simple to see that people would buy this. To say otherwise is to say that people don't waste money on things that they really don't need and that would be silly.

That's only true for your own personal observation.

seriously, you have to drop this whole, 'I don't want to pee on my phone line' It's silly and doesn't reflect what's actually going on.

Close. Maybe something like "i don't want to pee on a cotton swab, that then touches a cheap piece of plastic/whatever surface it goes on, which then plugs into my phone, with no pee ever coming into contact with anything that doesn't get thrown away right after."

That would work.

Since what I said encompasses what you said, but with fewer words, I'll stick to what I said. Thanks for the suggestion though.

This is because you're just fantasizing an ideal scenario to benefit your point. Earlier it was argued that it was more cost effective to not have a disposable part and now people are arguing to say it would be cheaper.

The truth is, probably none of you all actually know how much it costs and the exact details of this application and nor does it matter, because the fact still revolves around the combination of urine and a cell phone.

If you need to be checked that many times to where you actually need to have such an application, that $1.50 disposable device will no doubt cost more than a device in the long run. If you're not using it that often, once again, you're better off going to the doctor and getting a real test with human interaction.