Whether or not you love Star Trek we’d bet you know what a Tricorder is. The handheld device capable of gathering information about the environment around you, or taking health diagnostics about ...

The visually striking hardware monitor that [Mangy_Dog] recently put together for his new custom PC build might look like something out of the Alien franchise, but the hardware he’s built it ...

Well, another Star Trek gadget is on the verge of becoming common. The tricorder-- the device that ... At a demo at CES, I saw the phone scan what I was told was a real Viagra pill and a knock ...

While the Star Trek tricorder remains the stuff of science fiction, diagnostics companies globally continue to beaver away behind the scenes in search of a machine capable of diagnosing the ...

That device is more akin to the Tricorder Star Trek’s chief science officer Mr. Spock carried. What the XPRIZE’s tricorder-like devices can do, however, is help average consumers diagnose ...

For geeks growing up in the 1960s, '80s and '90s, a vision of the future has been provided by one very successful television franchise: Star Trek ... In the TV show, a tricorder is a handheld ...