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I never thought I would live to see something like this: A hand held scanner that can detect if a patient is healthy or not just by pointing it at the skin. It seems out of Star Trek, but it is real ...

We haven't mastered teleportation yet, but scientists have brought at least one gadget from Star Trek to life... sort of. German doctors have developed a small optical scanner that can measure your ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists who have developed a new way to create a type of radiation known as Terahertz (THz) or T-rays - the technology behind full-body security scanners - say their new, stronger ...

Consumer Physics, the Tel Aviv-based startup behind the handheld molecular food scanner dubbed “SCiO,” has now topped $2 million in crowdfunding via its Kickstarter campaign, with 11 days still ...

Scientists have developed a new way to create Terahertz waves (T-rays) that may one day lead to biomedical detective devices similar to the 'tricorder' scanner used in Star Trek. Scientists have ...

This one’s straight out of Star Trek. Bay Area startup DynoSense is developing a health scanner that can gauge heart rate, blood pressure, hydration and activity levels and a lot more – in less than a ...

The next "big thing" in emergency medicine could be a device small enough to fit in your hand. It was created right in Philadelphia, from technology we use every day. For nearly a decade, scientists ...

Its vision of romantic encounters with aliens and plagues of tribbles may not have come to pass just yet, but Star Trek has proved surprisingly accurate in predicting the future in other ways. When it ...