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 ...

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

The Mark 2 examined beautiful graphics and visualization capabilities, and what it was like to SSH into your handheld instrument to develop code for it.

The result isn't so much an all-in-one scanner as collection of noninvasive medical-diagnosis gadgets. Even so, its creators claim the DxtER package is better than Star Trek's fictional tricorder.

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.

A bit of a mutual admiration society has developed between the two finalists in Qualcomm’s $10 million Tricorder XPRIZE competition. Whatever animus might ...

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 ...

In the Stanford release, the researchers state that they discovered the cancer-detecting use for the new tricorder-like device out of research that was initially designed to detect buried plastic ...

Stranger than fiction: Star Trek’s ‘tricorder’ could soon be a reality By Zack Seward December 4, 2014 Listen Members of the Final Frontier Medical Devices team geeked out in Star Trek gear ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chipmaker Qualcomm is offering $10m for the first team to make a real-world Star Trek Tricorder.