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Rypinski is the leader of Aezon, one of the teams participating in the Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize. The competition launched in 2012, when the XPrize Foundation and U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm challenged innovators from around the world to develop a portable, consumer-friendly device capable of diagnosing a comprehensive set of medical conditions. More than 300 teams registered, and after a series of reviews, the organizers selected 10 finalists, announced last August.
This month, the final phase of the competition starts. Each finalist team was expected to deliver 30 working prototypes, which will now undergo a battery of tests with real patients. Prizes totaling US $10 million will go to the winner and two runners-up, to be announced early next year, when "Star Trek" will be celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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Their tricorders won't be all-powerful portable scanners like those in "Star Trek," but they still must demonstrate some impressive capabilities. They'll have to diagnose 13 medical conditions, including anemia, diabetes, hepatitis A, leukocytosis, pneumonia, stroke, tuberculosis, and urinary tract infections. In addition, teams choose three additional conditions from a list that includes food-borne illness, melanoma, osteoporosis, whooping cough, shingles, mononucleosis, strep throat, and HIV. And their systems must be able to monitor vital signs like temperature, blood pressure and oxygen saturation, heart rate, and respiratory rate—not only in real time but for periods of several days as well.
Smartphones already seem pretty close to tricorders.
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @06:24AM
but there are other star trek tri-corders?
off the top of my head, maybe:
measure distance
measure "background" radiation
measure photon spectrum
measure loudness of soundwaves
measure temperature
measure pH value
measure volts
measure amps
measure Hz
measure humidity
measure angle to "g"
measure atmospheric composition
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AND the killer: measure true universal value of something : P
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please infer anything you want from missing/not mentioning something important that can be measured.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @01:14PM
Objectively? Zero. Or rather any number you care to choose just so long as everything, including fractions of the same thing, have an identical number.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @02:59PM
OK, I can tell you how to build and use a device that can tell you the true universal value of anything.
Building: Take a piece of paper and a pen. With the pen, write "42" on the front side of the paper.
Using: Take your universal value measuring device. Point its back to the object whose true universal value you want to know. Read off the true universal value from the front side.