Basil Leaf Technologies recently presented their DxtER device at the 69th AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo in San Diego. The DxtER device has been compared to the Star Trek medical ...

Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE inventors built a 21st-century medical device that can diagnose dozens of diseases from the palm of your hand. The challenge was to build a “Star Trek”–inspired ‘tricorder’ — ...

Back in 2013, a Think Company exec joined a team of seven that had set a brash goal for themselves: to design a world-class medical device from a Paoli living room. Here’s Dr. Harris giving us the ...

Years ago, emergency room physician Dr. Basil Harris realized that a lot of the patients he was treating weren’t coming in with the kinds of severe trauma that ERs were designed for, such as car ...

Final Frontier Medical Devices was announced the highest performing team and received $2.5 million for their achievement and Dynamical Biomarkers Group received $1M for 2nd place. Both teams exceeded ...

We're getting closer to that Star Trek medical tricorder concept. First prize in the Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize was awarded to Final Frontier Medical Devices, a team in Pennsylvania. The team, led by ...

The winner of the four-year Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize competition, held in April this year, Final Frontier Medical Devices, walked away with a $2.5 million prize with their entry of a device that can ...

The quest is over for the most promising automated diagnostic gadget, inspired by the fictional “tricorder” used by Dr. McCoy in Star Trek. A seven-member, self-funded team took first place at the ...

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 ...