Chipmaker Qualcomm is offering $10m for the first team to make a real-world Star Trek Tricorder. ... graphics processing, GPS, 3G, LTE, FM, Bluetooth and more into smartphones and tablets, ...

Those of us who can’t spend quite as much on our Star Trek obsessions can at least spend 10 minutes taking a deeper dive into how Mangy Dog’s tricorder works, as they’ve created a tutorial ...

In two months, new technology could turn your smartphone into a “Star Trek”-style Tricorder - making the stuff of science fiction a reality.

"Star Trek" fans may soon get a chance to have their own Dr. McCoy moment with the world's first real-life medical tricorder, which will be available to the public soon thanks to a crowdfunding ...

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 ...

Star Trek has made an entire world imagine the unimaginable and dream of the unthinkable, from the magical teleports to the glorious tricorders that are able to diagnose any injury or illness or ...

Very few Star Trek fans have the engineering capabilities to boldly go where MangyDog has gone. The U.K.-based content creator with a background in 3D modeling and graphic design made headlines ...

The 29-year-old Jansen's school days spanned the late 1990s when "Star Trek: Voyager" was on the air. It featured his favorite tricorder, a model with screens on top and bottom.

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 ...

A new medical device that works much like a primitive version of Star Trek‘s tricorder could allow medics to check patients’ vital signs from up to forty feet away, greatly shortening triage ...

But now, thanks to Gizmodo, we’ve learned that one very resourceful Trekker has created the Star Trek: Voyager tricorder that never was. And it is cooler than anything we saw on screen back in ...

Have you ever wished that all the cool devices they had on 'Star Trek' were real? I have. The fictional gadget I want to have in real life is the tricorder. This device read biological ...