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.

ICYMI, the tricorder is a health device used on all Star Trek shows that basically scans the vital signs of a person. Tricorders, at least in Star Trek‘s world, allow doctors to quickly ...

In two months, new technology could turn your smartphone into a “Star Trek”-style Tricorder - making the stuff of science fiction a reality. This tech, soon to be revealed in Israel, works ...

The tale of a high-stakes medical device competition inspired by a sci-fi classic and a local team boldly going into the finals. It all starts with the very first season of Star Trek, a dream of the ...

This ‘Star Trek’-like ‘tricorder’ could be the go-to device for detecting cancer soon. by Molly Brown on November 10, 2015 at 11:30 am November 10, 2015 at 11:30 amMolly Brown on November ...

Now, the Tricorder XPrize finally has a winner in Final Frontier Medical Devices' DxtER. The result isn't so much an all-in-one scanner as collection of noninvasive medical-diagnosis gadgets.

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 ...

This time, it's making a working tricorder from an ordinary 1990s toy model. "I gutted the toy, sanded it down so it would fit my disused iPhone 4S, and then created custom graphics for it ...

Building a Tricorder 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 ...

The tricorder also has custom functionality specifically designed for cosplayers and collectors, including the ability to adjust the screen brightness so it doesn’t get blown out in photos.