Whether or not you love Star Trek we’d bet you know what a Tricorder is. The handheld device capable of gathering information about the environment around you, or taking health diagnostics about ...

Is this just a function of cost ... or as something more like a Star Trek tricorder that automatically tells you what you need to know? Is it a combination? This is a good question.

While the Star Trek tricorder remains the stuff of science ... body chemistry, and biological function data. Since then, the march of artificial intelligence (AI) has placed booster rockets ...

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 ...