The Dream of the Medical Tricorder  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8813 (Des. 2012), halaman SS12-SS13.
Topik: International; Smartphones; Medical Technology; Research & Development--R&D; Industrywide Conditions

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Along with teleportation, speech-driven computers and hand-held wireless communicators that flip open, the medical tricorder was one of many imaginary future technologies featured in Star Trek. Ever since, researchers have dreamed of developing a hand-held medical scanner that can take readings from a patient and then diagnose various conditions. Now, nearly five decades after Star Trek made its debut in 1966, the dream is finally edging closer to reality. Among the organisations pushing for the development of a medical tricorder is the X Prize Foundation, an organisation that aims to spur innovation by offering cash prizes. Earlier this year it announced the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, financed by the Qualcomm Foundation. The prospects for creating a medical tricorder have been boosted enormously by the spread of mobile phones.

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