| 
    
     
    
    
    
    Comments on Smart Phone-Based Tricorder Tech 
        It's just a prototype, but it illustrates very nicely how the computing power and graphics of a smartphone can be married to existing small medical probes. (Read
        the complete story) 
    
      
      
        "the picture of the tricorder should be labeled ST:TOS, it is not from the "Next Generation"" 
      (cyberdozer 4/24/2009 7:38:48 AM) | 
       
      
      
        | "Maybe you're right; but the graphics looked better than they did when I saw TOS back in the day. Maybe things looked worse in black and white on broadcast TV.
 
I just found this replica of the Star Trek original series tricorder - it goes on sale in May, 2009.
 
 
  
(Medical tricorder)
This one is available from  EE Exclusive Star Trek Original Series Medical Tricorder ." 
      (Bill Christensen 4/24/2009 9:38:12 AM)  | 
       
      
     
    Get more information on Smart Phone-Based Tricorder Tech  
    
    
    
    
     
    
    
    
   
    Leave a comment:
     Please send your comments to @technovelgy and I'll post them. Thanks!
    
       
      
     | 
    
         
      
        
        
      More Articles  
      
      
       
	  Jetson ONE Air Races Begin, Can Air Polo Be Far Behind? 
      'If you're one of those rarities who haven't attended a rocket-polo "carnage", let me tell you it's a colorful affair.'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Will Space Stations Have Large Interior Spaces Again? 
      'They filed clumsily into the battleroom, like children in a swimming pool for the first time, clinging to the handholds along the side.'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Mornine Sales Robot 
      'Robot-salesmen were everywhere, gesturing...'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Bipedal Robot Floats Gently While Walking 
      'a walking balloon proceeded with long strides of its aluminum legs...'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Musk Idea Of Cars Talking To Each Other Predicted 70 Years Ago 
      'My cars talk to one another.'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Elegant Bivouac Shelter Produces Water And Electricity 
      'There was nowhere on the planet where science and technology could not provide one with a comfortable home...'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  X-Control Janus-1 A Suitcase Aircraft 
      'You will notice that it... fits the suitcase nicely.'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  'AI Assistants' Are Actually Less Reliable For News 
      'Most men updated their PIP on New Year's Day...'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  YES!! Remote Teleoperated Robots predicted by Technovelgy! 
      '...a misshapen, many-tentacled thing about twice the size of a man.'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Will Robots Ever Fold Landry? 
      Where have you gone, Mrs. Robinson?
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Will AIs Give Better Results If You're Rude To Them? 
      'I said, "Listen up, motherf*cker.'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Cybertruck Robotic Arm F10 Drone Launch! 
      Drone away!
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Black Fungus Blocks Radiation 
      'You were surrounded by Astrophage most of the time'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Liuzhi Process Now In Use In China 
      'He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain.'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Reflect Orbital Offers 'Sunlight on Demand' And Light Pollution 
      'I don't have to tell you about the seven two-mile-diameter orbital mirrors...'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Will Robots Become Family Caregivers? 
      'The robant and the tiny old woman entered the control room slowly...'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Chinese Tokamak Uses AI To Keep Fusion Plasma Stable 
      'Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs... What are the odds?'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Time Crystals Can Now Be Seen Directly 
      'It is as you thought when you constructed the time crystal, my master Vaylan.'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  RoboBallet The Dance Of Cooperative Robots 
      '...an integrated seven-unit robot team.'
       
	  
      
	   
      
      
	  Chrysalis Generation Ship to Alpha Centauri 
      'This was their world, their planet — 
this swift-traveling, yet seemingly moveless vessel.'
       
	  
      
	   
      
     |