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 ...

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 ...

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 ...