This Device Helps Farmers By Turning iPads Into Sperm Analyzers

Putting the "see" in semen.

Reproduction is big business. The tech industry is tackling ways to streamline this fact of life, creating fertility-tracking apps, wearable monitors, and ovulation detectors, among others. And it's not only humans that are part of the mix. Animal breeding is just as challenging. The Taiwan-based startup Aidmics Biotechnology has a new invention: a system that analyzes livestock sperm. Essentially, it turns an iPad into a powerful microscope and diagnostic tool at a fraction of the cost of conventional methods.

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