Ann: Paediatric Study Published In Peer-Reviewed Journal, page-213

Fair call. There's a degree of machine interpretation in these areas of medicine already. Having the 'brain' mobile and hand-held, as opposed to wired and desktop is just the next iteration in hardware evolution.

This from an article on another thread;

"But ultimately, everything comes back to the smartphone. It's the most important device people own, the most popular device on the planet. If Xiaomi (or anyone else) wants people to buy its other stuff, it must sell a lot of phones first. And the best cheap phone won't win anymore. Only the best phone wins."

RAP are already working on tailored hardware to be virtually tethered sensory intelligence gatherers. Not quite coughing in to a phone, but I take your point.