Dear Hackers in GOSH,
Recently, I was invited to be a guest editor of [Biosensors] (IF: 5.519, ISSN 2079-6374) from a publisher “MDPI”.
Rather than refuse their invitation, I decided to do something crazy and fun: Having a special issue titled: Hacking Consumer Electronics for Biosensing. I would like to arrange hacking friendly peer reviewers for this special issue.
So, let’s hack the Academia world! To break the border between hacking and academia community 
Hacking consumer electronics for biosensing is an unorthodox approach, which might be more complicated than using standard research-grade parts. However, leveraging the billions of USD invested, mass-produced, high-quality, and low-cost components in consumer electronics leads to many benefits, such as higher performance, shorter time-to-market, and lower production cost. This approach has resulted in high value-adding technologies/patents and has given birth to startup companies easily. For example, consumer electronics hacking-based biosensing research uses a Blu-ray drive for disease diagnostics, became a startup (BluSense Diagnostics), and is nominated for the 2021 European Inventor Award.
Furthermore, the consumer electronics hacking-based publication generally attracts more attention and citation than a regular research paper due to the low cost and because off-the-shelf consumer electronics are easy to access from well-funded for resource researchers worldwide. This Special Issue is to honor your hacking work, and we wish to build up a consumer hardware hacking community that can give birth to the world’s first scientific journal for consumer electronics hacking-based research.
All the biosensing research using consumer electronics as core parts of the sensor are welcome!
Editors
Prof. Dr. En Te Hwu
Prof. Dr. Hua-Zhong “Hogan” Yu
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