Until then, [Peter Jansen] has dedicated a few years of his life to making the Tricorder of the Star Trek universe a reality. It’s his entry for The Hackaday Prize, and made it to the finals ...

Well, another Star Trek gadget is on the verge of becoming common. The tricorder-- the device that Spock and Dr. McCoy would use to analyze all kinds of objects and materials on the show -- is ...

That device is more akin to the Tricorder Star Trek’s chief science officer Mr. Spock carried. What the XPRIZE’s tricorder-like devices can do, however, is help average consumers diagnose ...