1.媒體來源:
路透社
2.完整新聞標題:
DIY fertility testing goes digital with Taiwan's iSperm
3.完整新聞內文:
Call home, check your email, count your sperm: Taiwanese start-up Aidmics is
hoping to cash in on the $40 billion global human fertility market with an
iPad compatible gadget it calls iSperm.
台灣一家名為億觀的創新公司，希望能夠藉由他們製造出的與iPad相容名為iSperm
的顯微鏡頭，在高達400億潛在利益的全球人類生育市場中獲利，。
Aidmics initially developed the product to help livestock farmers, but
founder Agean Lin now plans to seek U.S. Food and Drug Administration
approval next year to expand its use to men.
億觀原本研發此產品的目的為幫助養殖戶，但是創辦人林先生現在計畫向美國食藥
局申請明年能夠擴大到人類也能夠使用。
"In the U.S., one out of every six couples has trouble conceiving," Lin, 35,
told Reuters. Investment advisory Harris Williams estimates the global
fertility market to be worth as much as $40 billion.
iSperm was released commercially last August and has sold nearly 200 sets to
farms around the world. It isn't the first at-home sperm tester but the only
one that offers instant fertility measurements combined with live visuals of
the sperm.
這不是第一款家用的精子檢測器，但是卻是唯一一種可以立即看到精子影像的產品。
Lin said he aims to price the iSperm device between $100 and $200, a fraction
of the cost of the commercial version.
林先生說這款iSperm的售價大概會在一百至兩百美金
The technology is simple: a tiny microscope enlarges the contents of a few
drops of semen inside a pipette, lit by a backlight. The light beams the
moving image to the iPad camera, and algorithms then analyze the sample for
total sperm count and motility, or how fast sperm can swim.
前面部分為介紹該產品如何使用，可以看他們公司網站
http://tw.aidmics.com/isperm.html
iSperm可以分析精子數和活動力，或者是你的精子能游多快。
Sam Wang, manager of a livestock farm in central Taiwan, is a convert. "Our
pregnancy success rate increased by 20 percent after we started using this
gadget," said Wang, who uses the device to measure the fertility of his boars.
一名台灣養殖戶王先生，表示他使用這項產品以後，自家的山豬繁殖成功率提高了兩成。
"In the past, we had to use huge, expensive microscopes and physically count
each sperm one-by-one," he said.
在過去，我們使用非常昂貴的顯微鏡並且用人工一個一個數精子。
4.完整新聞連結 (或短網址):
http://tinyurl.com/qdzvecf
5.備註:
去年就有消息了，今年看來又更進一步，不過這個名字取的真的很有藝術感
買一台可以用來跟全班PK