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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...