Medical tricorder will be available next year for $150.

by Thomas
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Cool.

Holy Spock! The Star Trek Medical Tricorder Is Real, And It's Only $150

We already have padds (tablets), communicators (mobile phones), computers you can talk to (my phone), transparent aluminium (yes, really), tractor beams (albeit on a molecular level only), hyposprays... and God's knows what else.

So what not tricorders too!

All we need now is a working warp drive.
  • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
    Sounds like progress to me, if it works well, and can be adapted to a few more things like cholesterol level, bone density, blood pressure, names of infections found, etc., this will be a tremendous step forward in help care.

    I doubt it will put labs out of business because no doctor wants the possibility of a lawsuit in case the device malfunctions. Until a lot more is known and proven, it's going to take some time before its readings are totally accepted.

    The possibilities of devices like this are exciting, as well as considering how well they can be improved as time goes by.
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      I agree. It's totally cool!

      Hopefully, when it's fully functional and perfected, our gov and their powers that be won't suppress it!

      Terra
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    A physicist acquaintance of mine invented the tri-corder years back. I did a report on it for my newsletter. The military is using them. His detects diffferent mineral elements, etc. They can be used in detecting bombs vial detecting the elements used in them - they are used for mineral exploration - and they can be used to tell the age of certain things like rock etchings. His company is H3Tec - you can look up the website.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    They need to make one of those for the pharmacist, walk in, get scanned, pick up your prescription.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Originally Posted by Thomas View Post

    Cool.

    Holy Spock! The Star Trek Medical Tricorder Is Real, And It's Only $150

    We already have padds (tablets), communicators (mobile phones), computers you can talk to (my phone), transparent aluminium (yes, really), tractor beams (albeit on a molecular level only), hyposprays... and God's knows what else.

    So what not tricorders too!

    All we need now is a working warp drive.
    The basic stuff for a tablet was on the drawing board and or being USED when star trek hit! mobil phones were ALSO on the drawing board. They ran through repeaters or sattelites and are BETTER than cell phones! Too bad the cost so much more! Transparent aluminum sounds interesting, I would like to see proof of that. It is probably HYPE! They had computers on the consumer market you could talk to not TOO long after star trek. They weren't GREAT then again, they really aren't NOW! hyposprays? You probably mean those high speed injections they had like in WWII!

    A tractor beam for MOLECULES? WHOOPIE!

    As for the TRICORDER?

    You simply place it on the left temple and, in less than ten seconds, it will read your pulse transit time, heart rate, electrical heart activity, temperature, heart rate variability and blood oxygenation.

    Much of THAT has been around a long time ALSO. That is NOT what they spoke about on star trek. The pulse, blood characteristics, and oxygenation could be done with a simple LED detecting blood movement and color. The oxygenation has been known for decades but for some reason they charged a FORTUNE to the consumer market. Last time I checked, a few years ago, you can get them at many drug stores for less than fifty. much of the other for about $100.

    HEY, they had POLYCORDERS for DECADES! Blood pressure, pulse rate, oxygen level, galvonic skin response, temperature, etc... Of course, they call them polygraphs!

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    So they are saying it contains aluminum and is transparent, and so....

    that’s almost as strong as metallic aluminum. Referred to as AION, the material is four times harder than fused silica glass, 85 per cent as hard as sapphire and stable up to a temperature of 1,200C. And how strong is AION? Strong enough, at 1.6 inches thick, to stop .50-caliber bullets which can easily penetrate more than twice that thickness of conventional laminated glass armor.

    GOOD, but as I recall NOT like what they mentioned on star trek! They were specific about the strength. I remember them stating a thickness I thought was remarkable, and it had to handle all that water, weight, sloshing, etc.... And they said ALMOST! OK, in star trek, it said 1" to handle all that. I wonder how that compares to this.

    Steve
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