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USS Enterprise Evolution in Photos: The Many Faces of Star Trek's Favorite StarshipĬopyright 2013, a TechMediaNetwork company. The tricorder in Star Trek is presented as a device capable of detecting practically any issue. Warp Drive & Transporters: How 'Star Trek' Technology Works (Infographic) "It's great that you can have a customer who pays but is also a developer and thinks with you, and at the same time you make a planetary effort to make this device come out of a movie," de Brouwer said.įollow Clara Moskowitz on Twitter and Google+. Scanadu plans to use experiences and data collected by its first customers to improve and understand the product in preparation for that stage. In order to market the product as a medical device to the consumer market, the company will have to seek approval from the FDA. This tricorder, a generally square-shaped device, utilized three sections: a pivoting upper portion containing the display readout and controls a compartmented mid-section containing data chips and an adaptable lower portion, sometimes containing a hand-held sensor as with the medical tricorder. "The technology, probably in 10 years from now, will be built into our environment, so preventive medicine will almost disappear into the walls, into the fabric of our reality."Įarly adopters of the Scanadu Scout will get to try the device out as an exploratory tool. "If you look at the tricorder in Star Trek, it has four ideals: It is non-contact, it is non-cooperative - you may even be unconscious - it is non-sampling (doesn't take a sample of blood) and it is non-invasive," de Brouwer told. The Scout device even uses some real-life space technology, as its operating system, the 32-bit RTOS Micrium platform, was also used in the SAM instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.ĭe Brouwer said his invention was inspired by " Star Trek," and hopes over time the Scout will become more like the futuristic tool of the television series. The public now has until July 20 to order a first-generation Scanadu Scout for $199, before they are out in stores.ĭe Brouwer founded Scanadu out of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. There might be the 200 take-home device and larger kiosk-based ones that end up in your local Walgreens, where customers can walk in and do a quick self-diagnosis. Shortly before the campaign's one-month deadline, Scanadu decided to extend it for another month.
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