We're Getting Closer to Real-Life Tricorders
Many of us have longed for cool sci-fi inventions like a holodeck or replicators, but there's one tool we're actually getting pretty darn close to creating: the medical tricorder. Hosted by:...
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[♪ INTRO] Thanks to science fiction, we all have a pretty good idea of what medical diagnosis will look like in the distant future. You’ll go to the doctor, they will sweep a handheld scanner like Star Trek’s medical tricorders over you, and then it’ll tell them what ails ya. Cancer, broken leg, clogged arteries whatever it is, the tricorder will find it. Star Trek-style tricorders might seem pretty far off to those of us stuck here in the present, I mean right now we don’t even have dicorders, but thanks to clever scientists and some new technology, tricorders might not be as distant as you think. There are two big problems standing between us and tricorders: Making them small, and making them smart. A tricorder would have to look at you from t...
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[♪ INTRO] Thanks to science fiction, we all have a pretty good idea of what medical diagnosis will look like in the distant future. You’ll go to the doctor, they will sweep a handheld scanner like Star Trek’s medical tricorders over you, and then it’ll tell them what ails ya. Cancer, broken leg, clogged arteries whatever it is, the tricorder will find it. Star Trek-style tricorders might seem pretty far off to those of us stuck here in the present, I mean right now we don’t even have dicorders, but thanks to clever scientists and some new technology, tricorders might not be as distant as you think. There are two big problems standing between us and tricorders: Making them small, and making them smart. A tricorder would have to look at you from t...
