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Efforts to build a Star Trek tricorder-like device have been ongoing for at least a decade or two now, with various individuals and organizations contributing their own idea to the concept. For those ...

Its vision of romantic encounters with aliens and plagues of tribbles may not have come to pass just yet, but Star Trek has proved surprisingly accurate in predicting the future in other ways. When it ...

Growing up, I was a huge fan of "Star Trek." A tech geek to the core, what wowed me the most were devices like the Tricorder. For non-Trekkies, the Tricorder was a handheld medical scanner that ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a toy replica of a medical ...

If you’re like the average American, you’re finding it more and more challenging to get the healthcare you need. Doctors are less available, their prices have increased, and yet even once you’re able ...

Just a couple of months ago we wrote about a new, minuscule terahertz antenna that promised to change the world of medical and security imaging, and super-high-speed wireless transmissions. That ...

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 being ...