Real Trekkie tricorder detects ailments – LiveScience- msnbc.com
Real Trekkie tricorder detects ailments – LiveScience- msnbc.com
New handheld medical scanners coupled with regular cell phones resemble “Star Trek” tricorders and could see what ails you with a push of a button.
The invention, using off-the-shelf cell phone technology, would allow medical scanners to boldly go where none have gone before — to the aid of the roughly three-quarters of the worlds population currently without access to ultrasounds, X-rays and other imagers used for everything from detecting tumors to monitoring fetuses.
