The Star Trek tricorder was a good example of a McGuffin. It did anything needed to support the plot or, in some cases, ...

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 ...

“Space: the final frontier.” But it is actually medtech that is the final frontier these days for Star Trek-inspired technology, especially thanks to the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize and its ...