British scientists have been given a £3 million Government grant to develop a real-life version of the Star Trek "tricorder". Over a period of four years, the team hopes to build a hand-held device ...

A scientist has developed what could be the first steps to a real life Star Trek Tricorder. Dr Peter Jansen, a PhD graduate of the Cognitive Science Laboratory at McMaster University in Ontario, ...

It may have seemed that Mr Spock’s Tricorder would remain firmly in science fiction. But a gadget that can be used to diagnose an illness simply by holding it to the forehead, is now in the hands of ...

Dr Spock’s tricorder could soon be ‘fact, not science fiction’, allowing people all over the world diagnose their own illnesses. This is according to a group of engineers who have set up a £6 million ...

UK scientists have been given a £3million grant to develop a real life version of Star Trek's Tricorder. Over a period of four years, the team hopes to build a handheld device that can diagnose a ...

A REAL-life version of Star Trek medic Dr McCoy’s diagnostic marvel, the tricorder, is being developed by British scientists using viruses that behave like spaghetti. The shoe box-sized prototype can ...

Ten finalists have been chosen in a $10m (£6m) competition to develop a real-life "tricorder" - the medical scanner used in the Star Trek series. The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, external, launched ...