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Digital pregnancy tests are almost as powerful as the original IBM PC – The Verge
A Twitter teardown of digital pregnancy tests reveals the complicated 8-bit processor inside. These digital tests still use a paper strip to record the test, and literally read the result and convert it into an LCD display.
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A lot of computer to read an old-fashioned pee strip
A digital pregnancy test teardown.
@foone (Twitter)
Pregnancy tests used to be fairly simple sticks you peed on, but the move to digital versions has transformed them into tiny computers almost as powerful as the original IBM PC. Fascinated by the digital era of pregnancy tests, Twitter users foone and xtoff recently pulled apart examples from Walmart and Clearblue to reveal whats really going on inside.
Each test, which cost…
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