In two months, new technology could turn your smartphone into a “Star Trek”-style Tricorder - making the stuff of science fiction a reality. This tech, soon to be revealed in Israel, works with your ...

The tale of a high-stakes medical device competition inspired by a sci-fi classic and a local team boldly going into the finals. It all starts with the very first season of Star Trek, a dream of the ...

A seven-member, self-funded team consisting of four siblings won the international X Prize tricorder consumer medical competition — yes, inspired by the “Star Trek” gizmo — besting 312 entrants from ...

The Tricorder device from the Star Trek universe is about to become a real product, at least according to an announcement from CBS Entertainment. The product will come from The Wand Company, which ...

If only Leonard Nimoy were here to see a Star Trek fan dream come true. It would be nearly perfect, as the latest news regarding the Star Trek universe is certainly something Mr. Spock would applaud.

The relationship between Star Trek and real-world science is long and distinguished (how many NASA engineers have claimed to owe their careers to the adventures of Captain Kirk and crew?). And just as ...

Very few Star Trek fans have the engineering capabilities to boldly go where MangyDog has gone. The U.K.-based content creator with a background in 3D modeling and graphic design made headlines with a ...

Efforts to build a Star Trek tricorder-like device have been ongoing for at least a decade or two now, with various individuals and organizations contributing their own idea to the concept. For those ...

Are you out of your Vulcan mind? Brooklyn prosecutors charged a fraudster with conning a company out of $800,000 by pitching a health-care device modeled after Dr. Bones McCoy’s tricorder on “Star ...

Brooklyn federal prosecutors have a accused an Illinois man going where no con artist has gone before — by peddling a bogus medical device that worked like a “Star Trek” tricorder. Howard Leventhal, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starships, warp speed, transporters, phasers. Think "Star Trek" technology is only the stuff of fiction? Think again. Dr. Peter Jansen, a PhD graduate of the Cognitive Science ...