Talk:Medical tricorder

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I'll try to improve this as time goes by.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 21:09, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And whoever invents and builds one of these medical tricorders first -- it would be a nice public relations gesture to give freebie beta models to the Wikipedians who contributed and will contribute to this article.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 12:07, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Time for somebody to update. The XPrize for this happened a long time ago. Enquiring minds will want to know. Mcswell (talk) 20:51, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Are you volunteering?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:14, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"medical tricorder"[edit]

A medical tricorder is a fictional piece of equipment from Star Trek. This article seems to be considering a real world handheld portable medical scanner, but the primary topic of the title of this article is the Star Trek fictional device, so either the contents of this article is wrong, or its title is wrong. A simple google search [1] shows that the Star Trek device is the primary meaning of this term. Even the real world topics are in reference to the Star Trek device. -- 70.24.247.127 (talk) 07:23, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, basically. The whole situation is rather unusual -- a real-world device, as yet uncreated, which is best described by a fictional device from a TV show decades ago. This is all new. In the future we may wish to change the title of this article, but I think the key variable is -- which name catches on? Please consider that the article in the Economist refers to the uncreated device again and again as a medical tricorder; the prize competition does the same; so this name may catch on? Or the name "handheld portable medical scanner" may catch on as well. I wonder what's the best way to tell this. Any ideas?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 14:27, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If I remember correctly, a big part of the reason these devices are called tricorders (which'd otherwise be an obvious trademark violation of the owners of the Star Trek franchise) is that Gene Roddenberry explicitly stated at some point (and had it written into his contracts with Paramount, etc) that any devices capable of performing these functions would be allowed to call themselves tricorders. Given the Qualcomm prize, etc, it's clear that many companies took him up on this offer. Xmoogle (talk) 15:16, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of Star Trek tricorder?[edit]

Came to page looking for info about medical tricorder in Star Trek, specifically pictures.

Did not find such pictures. A picture of Bones is not helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.98.142 (talk) 20:55, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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