{"id":52388,"date":"2017-04-20T13:02:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/real-life-tricorders-are-here-230-years-early-courtesy-of-the-tricorder-xprize"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:46:49","slug":"real-life-tricorders-are-here-230-years-early-courtesy-of-the-tricorder-xprize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/real-life-tricorders-are-here-230-years-early-courtesy-of-the-tricorder-xprize","title":{"rendered":"Real-life tricorders are here 230 years early, courtesy of the Tricorder XPrize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/real-life-tricorders-are-here-230-years-early-courtesy-of-the-tricorder-xprize.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the far future, tricorders are invented and humanity spends many centuries prospering due in part to their widespread adoption. It\u2019s too early to tell whether we\u2019re on that timeline or a different one, but rest assured that one part of Gene Roddenberry\u2019s quixotic vision for the future has indeed come to pass. Tricorders are coming to the mass market, courtesy of the just-awarded Tricorder XPrize.<\/p>\n<p>The $2.5 million first prize went to Final Frontier Medical Devices, a team of seven including four Trekkie siblings, for their DxtER diagnostic device (below).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/real-life-tricorders-are-here-230-years-early-courtesy-of-the-tricorder-xprize2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/real-life-tricorders-are-here-230-years-early-courtesy-of-the-tricorder-xprize2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/real-life-tricorders-are-here-230-years-early-courtesy-of-the-tricorder-xprize2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dxter_web-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dxter_web-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/real-life-tricorders-are-here-230-years-early-courtesy-of-the-tricorder-xprize2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px)  100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/247843-real-life-tricorders-230-years-early-courtesy-tricorder-xprize\">https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/247843-real-life-tricord...der-xprize<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the far future, tricorders are invented and humanity spends many centuries prospering due in part to their widespread adoption. It\u2019s too early to tell whether we\u2019re on that timeline or a different one, but rest assured that one part of Gene Roddenberry\u2019s quixotic vision for the future has indeed come to pass. Tricorders are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65172,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52388\/revisions\/65172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}