Until then, [Peter Jansen] has dedicated a few years of his life to making the Tricorder of the Star Trek universe a reality ... push all the data to the web, and provide a way to sense just ...

Here are 12 gizmos used on the Star Trek ... Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge—you know, the guy from Reading Rainbow—used ...

Whether or not you love Star Trek we’d bet you know what a Tricorder is ... This covers things like temperature, humidity, GPS data, light intensity, and distance measurements among others.