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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Star Trek" fans may soon get a chance to have their own Dr. McCoy moment with the world's first real-life medical tricorder, which will be available to the public soon thanks to a crowdfunding ...

In other words, he was pitching the legendary Tricorder from Star Trek, even naming it after Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy, the blue-clad, very irritable medical officer from the 1960s show.

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 ...

It’s taken 54 years, but soon, you’ll finally be able to buy a fully-functional version of the tricorder from Star Trek. Announced on the official website for the legendary sci-fi franchise ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new medical device that works much like a primitive version of Star Trek‘s tricorder could allow medics to check patients’ vital signs from up to forty feet away, greatly shortening triage ...

The U.K.-based content creator with a background in 3D modeling and graphic design made headlines with a beautifully-detailed and fully-working tricorder inspired by the one depicted in Star Trek ...