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Old smartphones are at best recycled and at worst left in a drawer or thrown in the trash. Samsung offers another option for its Galaxy handsets, though, by extending their life but not as a smartphone.
Rather than recycling, Samsung embraced upcycling in 2017 and suggested turning your old phone into an IoT hub, CCTV system, game console, or a desktop PC. Today, the Galaxy Upcycling program expanded to include the option to turn a handset into a smart home device using its light and sound sensors. We created Galaxy Upcycling at Home to enable more people to repurpose their old devices into useful tools, allowing both Samsung and our users to be mindful of the impact we have on the environment, said Sung-Koo Kim, VP of the Sustainability Management Office, Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics. We are rethinking how we use existing resources, and we believe the key to upcycling is to enable solutions that transform old technology into somethin
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Tech giant Samsung Electronics is repurposing its old Galaxy smartphones into medical diagnosis cameras to enable greater access to ophthalmic healthcare in India, Vietnam, Morocco and Papua New Guinea.
Samsung partnered with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and Yonsei University Health System (YUHS) in Korea to create medical devices that screen for eye disease by using Galaxy smartphones that are no longer of use, a statement said. This Galaxy Upcycling program is helping to address approximately 1 billion global cases of vision impairment that are preventable with proper diagnosis, it added. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 2.2 billion people have a form of vision impairment and almost half of these cases were preventable or have yet to be addressed. There is a large disparity in the prevalence of vision impairment depending on the affordability and availability of eye care services.
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The fundus camera is developed in collaboration with health institutes
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Samsung on Wednesday introduced a device called the Eyelike fundus camera that is designed to transform older Galaxy smartphones into ophthalmic equipment that can help diagnose eye diseases. The new device is developed under the Galaxy Upcycling programme that aims to repurpose older Galaxy smartphones into medical diagnosis cameras. Samsung also expanded its Galaxy Upcycling programme to India as well as Vietnam, Morocco, and Papua New Guinea. The programme was introduced in South Korea back in 2017 to u