Just one example (courtesy iMedicalApps): startup Cellscope developed a smartphone camera attachment to create a personal otoscope (for looking at your eardrum) that links to a Cloud-based diagnosis engine to determine whether your child has an ear infection.

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In the emerging internet of things, Watson suggests that buildings will contain enough intelligence that they can be diagnosed in a similar fashion to the diagnosis of your car, where they plug into a dataport rather than listen to the engine.

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