#iphone

Video: iStetho Turns your iPhone into a Stethoscope

It's only intended for recreational use, but this feels like another step towards a real-life tricorder. A new start-up called RidRx is selling an adapter that connects stethoscopes to the iPhone/iPod touch, and uses their app for fancy spectral imaging. More »

11/18/09

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By Danny Allen

#iphone

One Day, This Will Be Remembered as the First Real Tricorder

Leave it to a NASA scientist to create the first Star Trek Tricorder using a stamp-sized sensor chip, an iPhone, and some spiffy programing. What does it do? It can detect killer gasses in the air. More »

11/12/09

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By Jesus Diaz

#cancer

Electroscalpel Hunts Down Cancer Like a Cougar at a High School Kegger

When surgeons dig around inside of you trying to cut out a tumor, they're actually going off of pre-op info to find the tumor. An electroscalpel, combined with a mass spectrometer, will let them map cancerous cells in realtime. More »

10/09/09

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By matt buchanan

#startrek

Real Star Trek Tricorder Media Player Goes Where No PMP Has Gone Before

We've seen plenty of Tricorder-styled gizmos, but the PMP-09 is the best I've seen, and a functional gadget in its own-right. The flip-up PMP has a 2.8-inch display, 8GB storage, and provides 12 hours of music/4 hours of video playback. More »

08/18/09

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By Danny Allen

#startrek

Nostalgic Trekkies Can Cling to the Original Series With This Retro Tricorder Replica

J.J Abrams' Star Trek took the original characters in a new, wonderful direction, but that doesn't mean people still can't enjoy the boxy look of the original series with this sharp-looking tricorder replica. More »

05/10/09

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By Jack Loftus

#startrek

Star Trek Plate Covers Won't Make Your Lights Turn On Any Faster

11/12/08

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#com

Smartphone Is a Dumb Word: We Need a New Name

It's 2008. Why are we still calling the devices we carry in our pockets "phones." The difference between cordless phones and cell phones is just one word, though the difference in functionality is vast. Even more clumsily, we call phones with email and web browsing "smartphones," despite most modern geeks using less than 10% of their battery to make calls. With so many disparate core features—emailing and browsing, plus texting, video calling, video recording, pic snapping, music listening, video watching, game playing and day organizing—shouldn't we be ditching the word "phone"? The term is so...1876. We need a new name, and I humbly suggest "com." Follow me on this one: More »