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It’s for the Bluetooth piece. The optical sensor reads the result and the turns on the light and/or lets the phone know over Bluetooth.

Seems unnecessary, but if people want to buy it…

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> Seems unnecessary, but if people want to buy it…

Considering that this is an article used once for a few minutes the environmental cost for production and deposition is high and society shouldn't tolerate ...

Once for this specific test. If you planned on buying a lot of tests and using them regularly, maybe you could find value in a BLE connection? IDK. That crosses into a different new normal line for me that I am uninterested in I think.

Otherwise, I agree, seems wasteful when you look at what had to happen to ship that product.

If you do mass testing the Bluetooth might be useful in theory, but you babe to make sure to protect the data well ...

The environmental cost of getting more people sick with covid is also high.

People decompose. Electronics don’t.

Yes, but one can test without full set of electronics in each test thingy ...

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