Factory Entertainment Unveils Star Trek: The Next Generation Medical Tricorder Replica, Shipping in Late 2024
https://blog.trekcore.com/2024/07/factory-entertainment-star-trek-tricorder-replica/
https://blog.trekcore.com/2024/07/factory-entertainment-star-trek-tricorder-replica/
14 Comments
match@pawb.social · 22 pts · 2y
I'm gonna take this to ren faire and whip it out when I'm just barely out of line of sight
original_reader@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 2y
I mean, cool.
It's just that my early 21st century cellphone has more sensors than this 24th century device... 💁♂️
UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
And your cellphone even costs less. (unless you've bought a flagship phone)
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Can your cellphone identify the chemical composition of rocks 1000 feet underground, or scan someone for invasive pathogens, or identify lifeforms 10 KM away?
original_reader@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
No.
Can this Tricorder?
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Of course not, but the 24th century ones can.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 9 pts · 2y
This disappoints me so much because it's just a toy, when we have the technology to make a scanning device that is basically a real one (not as magically good, though). I've seen phone addons for scientific research that can scan things for various things. Like a glucose monitor, Geiger counter, barometer, light sensor, blood pressure monitor, and more; with no reason why a single device couldn't have all of these things in one other than maybe cost.
Laberpferd@sueden.social · 2 pts · 2y
@Kolanaki
Caterpillar S61 :)
@ValueSubtracted
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Wake me up when it's functional
hopesdead@startrek.website · 3 pts · 2y
The Wand Company is making a Tricorder.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Still doesn't do medical scans
original_reader@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Would we have the technical know-how for that?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
When you come wake me up when we have it? Yes.
ZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
We basically have a lot of highly advanced technologies already. I don't think it'll be long until our lives look like Star Trek.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y