The ultimate space travel multitool, a "Star Trek" tricorder is one of the handiest things aboard any Starfleet vessel. Useful for performing a wide range of functions, they are the "Star Trek ...

The Next Generation's most famous memes originated from a surprisingly emotional scene between Captain Picard and Q.

After all, we’ve had our eyes on that officially licensed tricorder replica for quite some time now.

Until then, [Peter Jansen] has dedicated a few years of his life to making the Tricorder of the Star Trek universe a reality. It’s his entry for The Hackaday Prize, and made it to the finals ...

That device is more akin to the Tricorder Star Trek’s chief science officer Mr. Spock carried. What the XPRIZE’s tricorder-like devices can do, however, is help average consumers diagnose ...

Star Trek Adventures 2nd Edition's newly unveiled Technical Manual sourcebook unleashes the most powerful force in the galaxy ...

and Star Trek: Voyager attributed survival to the tricorder, a fictional medical scanner that helps doctors diagnose and treat medical problems. As with famine and poverty, Star Trek creator Gene ...

Well, another Star Trek gadget is on the verge of becoming common. The tricorder-- the device that Spock and Dr. McCoy would use to analyze all kinds of objects and materials on the show -- is ...

“Space: the final frontier.” But it is actually medtech that is the final frontier these days for Star Trek-inspired technology, especially thanks to the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize and its ...