The Tricorder Project was started by Dr. Peter Jansen while he was still a graduate student studying neural computation and cognitive modeling at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His ...

Know the near-magical handheld analysis gadgets known as "tricorders" that everyone carries in Star Trek? A cognitive science researcher has created a real-world version. "The open source science ...

Star Trek-like open-source tricorder sees magnetic fields and more, MSNBC “A person with that level of smarts, apparently, has enough brain power leftover in his spare time to invent tricorders, not ...

Since [Gene Roddenberry] traveled back in time from the 23rd century, the idea of a small, portable device has wound its way through the social consciousness, eventually turning into things like ...

Efforts to build a Star Trek tricorder-like device have been ongoing for at least a decade or two now, with various individuals and organizations contributing their own idea to the concept. For those ...

"Star Trek" fans may soon get a chance to have their own Dr. McCoy moment with the world's first real-life medical tricorder, which will be available to the public soon thanks to a crowdfunding ...

The conceptual device from a California high school comes up with ingenious ways to measure sickness that even the professionals working on the contest didn’t think of. Industrial design consulting ...

Fifty years ago, the “Star Trek” series envisioned a handheld medical device that could diagnose every condition with just a swipe over the patient’s body. The tricorder was just one of the show’s ...

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The world of Star Trek featured a handheld device that was used to scan the health of patients. In 2014, it came to light that Alphabet’s “Moonshot Factory” was trying to create such a gadget, with ...

"Star Trek" fans may soon get a chance to have their own Dr. McCoy moment with the world's first real-life medical tricorder, which will be available to the public soon thanks to a crowdfunding ...