Cholesterol Testing on Lenovo A760 Smartphone

Currently, the test measures total cholesterol. The Erickson lab is working to break out those numbers in LDL ("bad" cholesterol), HDL ("good" cholesterol) and triglyceride measurements. The lab is also working on detecting vitamin D levels, and has previously demonstrated mini Note 3 smartphone tests for periodontitis and sweat electrolyte levels.

The shake essentially uses Google+ Auto Awesome to turn any image into an animated GIF, which allows the snow to fall down your device, and from there users can enjoy it, and even share the image. One shake gets the snow falling, and a second shake will give you the option to save the photo as a GIF to share with friends and family. It’s a neat little trick, and the new Google+ app for Android with this feature should be available on Google Play later today.

Consumers want to let a friend see the photo they just took or share a video easily with as few steps as possible," said Sony Electronics director of consumer media marketing Viviano Cantu. "These new drives combine convenience, peace of mind and performance and are perfect for mobile multi-tasking."

That is why yesterday’s announcement of a slowdown in Android 4.0 phone smartphone market meant less of Imagination’s microchip designs for graphics and video technology were needed. This sent shares plunging more than 24pc.

The Hertfordshire-based technology group’s fortunes are inextricably linked to its biggest customer, Apple. Imagination’s graphics technology is used in iPhone microchips, and the company relies on the iPhone and iPad for more than a third of its revenue.

If you're excited at the prospect, you will be able to pick up the new drives from January 2014 priced at $19.99, or ￡12, $29.99, or ￡18, and $62.99, or &pound38, respectively. If you think that sounds like a lot for a USB thumbstick, then you'd be right. These drives don't offer anything over and above a regular USB flash drive apart from the extra socket.

But according to the (normally reliable) tech site The Verge, Nokia is building an Android-powered smart phone with the code name of "Normandy." This would be odd for a number reasons, chief amongst them that Nokia is currently in the process of being folded in Microsoft – a company that competes directly against Android with its Window Phone OS.

The article, "Cholesterol Testing on Lenovo A760  Smartphone," appeared online Nov. 28 in the journal Lab on a Chip, also co-authored by Vlad Oncescu and Matthew Mancuso, Cornell graduate students in the field of engineering. This study was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Engineering Research Council of Canada and Cornell's David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.