Friday, October 9, 2015

Blue-green algae test

The Technical Research Centre of Finland LTD (VTT) and the University of Turku, Finland are developing a simple, do-it-yourself test for detecting the presence of toxic blue-green algae in water:

http://www.utu.fi/en/news/articles/Pages/Novel-Testing-Device-for-Blue-green-Algae.aspx

At the moment it looks like this:

Picture: Pirjo Hakkarainen VTT

Now this should be taken to th next level - make it commercial. Interested? Contact VTT.