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$10 Mil Offered To Inventor Of Star Trek Technology

By on January 13, 2013 in News

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THE X PRIZE foundation, a non-profit foundation promoting technology, has offered a $10m prize to anyone who can make Star Trek’s medical “tricorder” diagnostic machine a reality.

The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize was announced in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. The X Prize Foundation’s Chairman Peter Diamandis said: “I’m probably the first guy who’s here in Vegas who would be happy to lose $10m.”

The challenge laid down is to produce a device capable of reading “key health metrics and diagnosing a set of 15 diseases” while being completely portable, with a maximum weight of 2.2kg.

On the sci-fi TV series the tricorder was an all-purpose handheld sensor and scanner used by the spaceship’s doctors such as Leonard “Bones” McCoy.

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  • dave

    well i did not invent a tricorder but however to bad someone was not offering prize for a medical device i developed that could stop a spinal injury from progressing as a example if my device was used when Larry Flynt was shot he could very well be walking today perhaps.. best regards freelance engineer…

  • Richard

    Dave, You didn’t develope your invention because no one was offering a prize?

  • dave

    hi Richard, still in designing stage right now but however all my work is guaranteed, i dont get paid until everyone is satisfied (:

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