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.

According to Star Trek, 23rd century doctors will diagnose most illnesses and determine the general state of health via a device called a Tricorder. But as with many of Star Trek’s futuristic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The quest to create a tricorder began many years ago, when such a device was but a figment of Gene Roddenberry's vivid imagination. However, his vision has crept ever closer to reality in recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Peter Jansen has built a real-life tricorder, and he's hoping you'll use his open-source plans to build your own. Written by Mari Silbey, Contributor March 30, 2012 at 2:53 a.m. PT ...

A tricorder may soon be an essential part of every voyaging astronaut's tool kit, and not just on "Star Trek." Handheld diagnostic devices akin to the tricorders famously wielded by doctors in the ...