Date: 15/04/2017 13:53:51
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1052656
Subject: StarTrek Tricorder Wins $2.6M Prize

Live Long and Prosper: ‘Star Trek’-Like ‘Tricorder’ Wins $2.6M Prize

The four-year Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize competition announced a winner yesterday (April 12) and awarded the top prize of $2.6 million to Final Frontier Medical Devices, a Pennsylvania-based team. The competition, run by the X Prize Foundation, challenged teams to create a mobile health-monitoring device like the one featured on “Star Trek.”

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Date: 15/04/2017 13:55:16
From: furious
ID: 1052658
Subject: re: StarTrek Tricorder Wins $2.6M Prize

Not even close…

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Date: 15/04/2017 13:55:55
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1052659
Subject: re: StarTrek Tricorder Wins $2.6M Prize

Does it record smell?

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Date: 15/04/2017 13:58:11
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1052661
Subject: re: StarTrek Tricorder Wins $2.6M Prize

13 predefined health conditions. There was a required set of 10 conditions to look for, such as

pneumonia,
sleep apnea or
urinary tract conditions.

Elective conditions (from which teams chose three) included examples such as

HIV, hypertension,
cholesterol screening,
food-borne illness and
strep throat, according to the guidelines on X Prize’s website.

Teams were also supposed to use the device they created to monitor

blood pressure,
heart rate,
temperature,
respiratory rate and
oxygen saturation.

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Date: 15/04/2017 15:10:52
From: Neophyte
ID: 1052666
Subject: re: StarTrek Tricorder Wins $2.6M Prize

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But tricorders in Star Trek (the original series anyway) weren’t medical devices.

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Date: 15/04/2017 17:59:31
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1052671
Subject: re: StarTrek Tricorder Wins $2.6M Prize

A key factor here is “noninvasive”. Presumably records pressure, temperature and colour and then some program correlates that to diseases. Lung volume and a squeeze-ball?

Claims to diagnose 90% of the cases that appear in the emergency medical room. I like the idea, would it be suitable for astronauts onboard the ISS for example?

The winner, comes with the disclaimer “For research line only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures”.

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Date: 15/04/2017 18:02:34
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1052672
Subject: re: StarTrek Tricorder Wins $2.6M Prize

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The medical tricorder is used by doctors to help diagnose diseases and collect bodily information about a patient; the key difference between this and a standard tricorder is a detachable hand-held high-resolution scanner stored in a compartment of the tricorder when not in use.

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Date: 16/04/2017 12:30:32
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1053045
Subject: re: StarTrek Tricorder Wins $2.6M Prize

Earlier news report on real life tricorder from 2012.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-startrek-tricorder-idUSBRE83C1FK20120413

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