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 ...

The Tricorder device from the Star Trek universe is about to become a real product, at least according to an announcement from CBS Entertainment. The product will come from The Wand Company, which ...

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 ...

Qualcomm Foundation and the X Prize Foundation are challenging technology and medical innovators to develop a real-life mobile tricorder that can diagnose 15 diseases without any poking, prodding or ...

In more ways than just one, Star Trek was able to predict the future, though at the time of the show's airing, the ideas may have seemed outlandish. A universal translator? Anyone with a smartphone or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Voyager tricorder was so cool, a friend commissioned a replica of the prop for themselves. So Mangy_Dog took the opportunity ...

From CNET Magazine: An XPrize competition aims to turn a 50-year-old science fiction concept into a powerful medical device that's accessible to all. Jennifer Guevin was a managing editor at CNET, ...

The technology of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek looked so far forward it could almost have been used as a visual aide to Arthur C. Clarke's third law: technology so advanced, it's indistinguishable ...