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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...