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 ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) says it is researching a series of portable instruments that should give astronauts instant info about alien rocks ...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Star Trek: Discovery" season 5 ... you need never have the burden of having to actually carry a tricorder anymore, because now they can be worn like contact lenses.

Fifty years after the show aired, Star Trek's fictional tricorder is far from becoming a reality. But a $10 million prize from the XPRIZE Foundation is hoping to motivate inventors to create one ...

While the Star Trek tricorder remains the stuff of science fiction, diagnostics companies globally continue to beaver away behind the scenes in search of a machine capable of diagnosing the ...

They laughed. They wept. They found one another! As Star Trek: Discovery neared its conclusion, feelings were running high among the cast and crew.