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Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not an engineer!
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canflipper
Infested U.E.D.
#1 - 2012-01-18 05:38:00 UTC  |  Edited by: canflipper
The X-Prize foundation is giving $10 million to whoever can create a tricorder (you know, the kind from Star Trek). It has to be able to detect vital signs and 15 different types of diseases.
http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-01-18 19:28:00 UTC
Need an instant prescription, no questions asked? There's an app for that

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Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#3 - 2012-01-19 02:03:25 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Need an instant prescription, no questions asked? There's an app for that


I could tell you stories ... Big smile

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Alara IonStorm
#4 - 2012-01-19 03:18:40 UTC
Like Web MD but accurate.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-01-19 04:12:45 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
Like Web MD but accurate.


I'll have you know webMD has diagnosed me successfully almost when I got eczema on my arm. It said I had leprosy and a quick trip to the dermatologist confirmed it wasn't leprosy and gave me some steroid ointment and it was gone in a few days Big smile

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Spineker
#6 - 2012-01-19 04:17:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Spineker
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Alara IonStorm wrote:
Like Web MD but accurate.


I'll have you know webMD has diagnosed me successfully almost when I got eczema on my arm. It said I had leprosy and a quick trip to the dermatologist confirmed it wasn't leprosy and gave me some steroid ointment and it was gone in a few days Big smile



Glad it was not leprosy even though we don't have colony anymore still glad :)

Best advice is go see a doctor, I see people post things on those sites and I am like really? Maybe a doctor visit is in store for you?


"My gums are swelling up and my tooth aches do you think I have cancer?"

No I think you should brush your teeth and go see a dentist at least every couple years every year would be smartest.
Atticus Fynch
#7 - 2012-01-19 23:36:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Atticus Fynch
We are far off from Tricorder technlogy siplybecuase in order to analyze anything you must meet one of two conditions.

1. There is an emission of some kind from the source that you can analyze.

or

2. The target reacts to some kind of stimulus from the analyzing source.

So far today we can detect anolomies in electrical activity in the heart or brain. We can detect temperature by passing a wand over your forehead. We can biew inside the boody by way of Xray or CAT-Scan. But to detect all vital signs/illness from a handheld device that is not even touching you is way way off.

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VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2012-01-20 00:22:25 UTC  |  Edited by: VKhaun Vex
Atticus Fynch wrote:
2. The source reacts to some kind of stimulus from the analyzing source.


This is where you're wrong.

SONAR bouncing sound off of things and examining how it is distorted when it comes back is the classic example, so I'll start there.Imagine a hand held star-trek version of SONAR. The SONARcorder we'll call it.

Instead of sending out it's own single sound, it would examine sounds already in the area. Isolate individual sounds which it can hear and analyze what sound passed through it and came back in it's direction (or didn't) and how they distort. In a place with a normal ambient noise level like a forest or city the entire environment around the user could be mapped in 3D right down to what materials surfaces were made of without the handheld device doing anything but listening to how sounds of different strengths from different directions were behaving.

Lets say you point your SONARcorder at a person. Heart rate and breathing are obvious by measuring sound, but the heart also becomes a sonar generator at the core of the body. Your SONARcorder can image the entire body using the sound of the heart and femoral muscles and the way it is distorted by the flesh and blood. Even sound it CAN'T hear can give it information simply by virtue that the sound did not return to the device as expected. It knows what information is missing!

We already do stereo imaging and have reverse engineered it to the point of headphones and in-home theaters being common. We have sophisticated and super sensitive microphones. It's purely a matter of having chips that can process the data in real time and memory that can store and acess it all in real time. That... and contests like this to make people TRY instead of 'lol it's impossible because of 1 2 and 3...'.

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