Pursuits
Star Trek’s Tricorders Are Almost Here
Trying to make Star Trek’s tricorders a reality
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Stardate: 2014. As Star Trek nears its 50th anniversary, most of its imagined technologies remain light years away. But several startups and research projects claim they can approximate the functions of the tricorder, that handheld device used to instantly diagnose a disease or analyze the atmosphere of an alien world. Just how close are they?
