Until then, [Peter Jansen] has dedicated a few years of his life to making the Tricorder of the Star Trek universe a reality. It’s his entry for The Hackaday Prize, and made it to the finals ...

Well, another Star Trek gadget is on the verge of becoming common. The tricorder-- the device that Spock and Dr. McCoy would use to analyze all kinds of objects and materials on the show -- is ...

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 ...

On Star Trek: The Next Generation ... to music—just the things we use tablets for today. In the TV show, a tricorder is a handheld device that scans for geological, biological, and ...

After all, we’ve had our eyes on that officially licensed tricorder replica for quite some time now.

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 ...

This article, written with the research assistance of AI, will explore 10 of the most famous Star Trek devices and innovations, and how AI could help develop these technologies. Whether it’s improving ...

and Star Trek: Voyager attributed survival to the tricorder, a fictional medical scanner that helps doctors diagnose and treat medical problems. As with famine and poverty, Star Trek creator Gene ...