It all starts with the very first season of Star Trek, a dream of the 1960s, and one Dr. Leonard McCoy. His go-to gadget: the “tricorder” — a handheld device, about the size of an old tape recorder, ...

As well as getting your transporter in a twist, you might have spent 1976 begging your parents for the Mego Star Trek Tricorder. Essentially a jazzed-up tape recorder with a microphone ...

You know how on Star Trek doctors can diagnose ... or read your vital signs from a medical tricorder—a device that looks suspiciously like an old cassette recorder? Well, not surprisingly ...

The Star Trek tricorder was a good example of a McGuffin. It did anything needed to support the plot or, in some cases, couldn’t do things also in support of the plot. We know [SirGalaxy] was ...

According to Star Trek, 23rd century doctors will diagnose most illnesses and determine the general state of health via a device called a Tricorder. But as with many of Star Trek’s futuristic ...

Future cancer-detecting gadgets might take the form of one of the most awesome devices in sci-fi history — the tricorder. Via Mic, a group of Stanford electrical engineers are developing a ...

In two months, new technology could turn your smartphone into a “Star Trek”-style Tricorder - making the stuff of science fiction a reality. This tech, soon to be revealed in Israel ...

So that’s exactly what maker Mangy Dog dog did when they built a replica of a Star Trek tricorder that looks straight out of the 24th century. In a recent video, they show off even more of its ...

Have you ever wished that all the cool devices they had on 'Star Trek' were real? I have. The fictional gadget I want to have in real life is the tricorder. This device read biological ...

The first step in developing a Tricorder device may only be a few ... Ann Thompson reports in "Focus on Technology." The Star Trek way was to detect information about the unknown with a hand ...

For the last few years, [Mangy_Dog] has been working on what is easily the most technically and aesthetically impressive Star Trek tricorder prop the world has ever seen. With each new version of ...

A portable medical device that echoes the tricorder handheld analytical tools used in the sci-fi series Star Trek is headed to the International Space Station, the Canadian Space Agency recently ...