In two months, new technology could turn your smartphone into a “Star Trek”-style Tricorder - making the stuff of science fiction a reality.

We may have finally boldly gone where no one else has gone before with this tricorder becoming a reality that actually helps people.

Many Star Trek gadgets have made the journey from science fiction to real life. Arun Rath talks to Grant Campany about the X Prize Foundation's competition to bring the medical tricorder to life.

Major players in the medical tricorder market are QuantuMDx, Cloud DX, Qualcomm Technologies, Basil Leaf Technologies, Healthy. io Ltd. , Ionis Pharmaceutical, Fujikura, Basler, and Hamamatsu ...

Over at Suw Charman's blog, she posts what sounds like an intriguing exercise held at EuroFoo, which I've never heard of. They decided to see how they could build a tricorder like in Star Trek ...

Last week, the Scanadu Scout finally launched on Indiegogo. As an entrant in the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, the health-tracking device was designed to read your temperature, blood pressure ...

Stranger than fiction: Star Trek’s ‘tricorder’ could soon be a reality By Zack Seward December 4, 2014 Listen Members of the Final Frontier Medical Devices team geeked out in Star Trek gear ...

A real-life diagnostic device that does something akin to what the tricorder did on "Star Trek" just might earn its developers $10 million prize. And yes, the proposed competition is actually ...

A bit of a mutual admiration society has developed between the two finalists in Qualcomm’s $10 million Tricorder XPRIZE competition. Whatever animus might ...

The result isn't so much an all-in-one scanner as collection of noninvasive medical-diagnosis gadgets. Even so, its creators claim the DxtER package is better than Star Trek's fictional tricorder.

Scanadu, competing for the Tricorder X-Prize, epitomizes the hyperpersonalization of health care and the key to unleashing social media medicine. Social Medicine is the next big thing and a ...

The current and former students make up Team Aezon, one of 10 finalists and the only university team remaining in the Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize competition. (“We wanted our name to sound cool ...