WANT TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE AN STD? JUST PEE ON YOUR PHONE! JUST KIDDING! DOCTOR'S SAY THEY'RE CLOSE TO MAKING STD TESTING AVAILABLE THROUGH CELL PHONES!

Diagnosing STDs may soon be as easy as peeing onto a strip and inserting it into a mobile phone.
In response to the rising numbers of people infected with sexually transmitted diseases, scientists and doctors in the UK are working to create quick mobile kits similar to pregnancy tests for users to quickly – and quietly – test for infections including Chlamydia, herpes and more, the British newspaper The Guardian reported.

The goal, said project leader Dr. Tariq Sadiq, is to make your mobile phone "your mobile doctor."

"We need to tackle the rising epidemic of [STDs], which have been going up and up and up," he said.

Four million British pounds (about $6.5 million) have been invested into creating the devices by organizations including Britain's National Health Service, according to the report. To use the devices, users would urinate or possibly even just put a small amount of salivia on a strip. That strip, which would be about the size of a USB chip could be plugged into the phone or computer, which would test for the infections and send back results within minutes.

There's no word when the devices will hit shelves, but developers told the newspaper they hope to sell them for less than a dollar – and in vending machines, similarly to how condoms are sold in bar bathrooms.

Doctors told the newspaper that they hope that easier diagnosis can lead to safer sex in Britain, where the rates of STDs has skyrocketed over the past few years with more than 482,000 reported cases last year.

In the United States, the percentage of people affected with Chlamydia and syphilis also exploded between 2000 and 2008, according to the Center for Disease Control. In 2008, there were more than 1.5 million reported cases of Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis alone, the CDC said.

While free testing is available in the UK and the US, Sadiq, the British doctor, said that people are often too ashamed to go to clinics and get tested. A quick at-home screening kit could be an effective way to cut down on the rapid spread of infections – and even give non-infected consumers a sigh of relief.

"That there's a major embarrassment factor here," he told The Guardian. "Especially among young people, [that] makes the situation worse."