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Finalists named for $10m Star Trek 'tricorder' X Prize
BBC News Technology blog ^ | August 27, 2014 | Edwin Lane, technology reporter

Posted on 10/21/2014 7:53:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Star Trek tricorder diagnosed any illness at once.

Ten finalists have been chosen in a $10m (£6m) competition to develop a real-life "tricorder" - the medical scanner used in the Star Trek series.

The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, launched last year, challenges anyone to develop a wireless device capable of detecting a range of diseases.

The technology employs sensors and imaging to measure vital signs and diagnose conditions non-invasively.

X Prize officials said the technology was now "fact, not science fiction".

The 10 finalists come from a range of backgrounds, including universities, medical device manufacturers and tech start-ups.

One research team is backed by Nasa and the Bill Gates Foundation, while another is made up of engineering students at Johns Hopkins University in the US.

They now have until the middle of next year to develop workable prototypes of their devices in the hope of winning the prize....

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: diagnosis; doctormccoy; gatesfoundation; health; johnshopkins; medicine; nasa; qualcomm; science; startrek

1 posted on 10/21/2014 7:53:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What an unsuspected x-prize....


2 posted on 10/21/2014 7:57:25 PM PDT by GreensKeeperWillie (Sancte Maria, mater Dei, ora pro nobis)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How long before the “iCorder”?


3 posted on 10/21/2014 8:06:59 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The tri-corder did a lot more than that.


4 posted on 10/21/2014 8:14:12 PM PDT by yarddog (G)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I want the holodeck, replicators, transporters, and phasers.

And the green chick from the original series!


5 posted on 10/21/2014 8:14:58 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often for the same reason)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The first “Green Girl” was Susan Oliver. She died of Cancer in 1990.

She was a hell of a pilot, setting several female records in single-engine aircraft and the Learjet, and made several appearances at Oshkosh.


6 posted on 10/21/2014 8:32:55 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can’t some cats and dogs do this?


7 posted on 10/21/2014 8:37:13 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Might be older by now, better go for a younger one.


8 posted on 10/21/2014 8:42:16 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
the other Orion slave girl of note was Marta, played by Yvonne Craig of Batgirl fame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H2QvmWLT4s

9 posted on 10/21/2014 8:56:20 PM PDT by garyb
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To: yarddog

Smart kids ...... I planted a dead tree today.


10 posted on 10/21/2014 9:17:18 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kewel...


11 posted on 10/22/2014 1:02:02 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Perdogg; ShadowAce

Dr Leonard “Bones” McCoy ping.


12 posted on 10/25/2014 5:53:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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