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X Prize Foundation Offers $10 Million For a Tricorder
11 May 2011 21:35 #1
by CinnamonGirl
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http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2 ... e-patients
Labs-on-a-chip are useful tools for diagnosing diseases, but most can only pick out one or two sickness signatures amid an array of symptoms. The X Prize Foundation, responsible for innovation challenges in anything from spacecraft to oil spills, wants an all-purpose mobile device that can diagnose a patient better than a doctor. A tricorder!
The foundation and wireless gadget-maker Qualcomm Inc. are hosting a $10 million prize to develop a mobile diagnostic device, which they really are calling a tricorder. It would combine wireless sensor technology, medical imaging, microfluidics and more.
What I find interesting about this story is--- Why Don't they do more of this? Give an incentive to people and say if you cure diabetes we will pay you 50 million dollars.
Labs-on-a-chip are useful tools for diagnosing diseases, but most can only pick out one or two sickness signatures amid an array of symptoms. The X Prize Foundation, responsible for innovation challenges in anything from spacecraft to oil spills, wants an all-purpose mobile device that can diagnose a patient better than a doctor. A tricorder!
The foundation and wireless gadget-maker Qualcomm Inc. are hosting a $10 million prize to develop a mobile diagnostic device, which they really are calling a tricorder. It would combine wireless sensor technology, medical imaging, microfluidics and more.
What I find interesting about this story is--- Why Don't they do more of this? Give an incentive to people and say if you cure diabetes we will pay you 50 million dollars.
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11 May 2011 22:32 #2
by pineinthegrass
Replied by pineinthegrass on topic X Prize Foundation Offers $10 Million For a Tricorder
Or just buy one. Phaser and Communicator too... 
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Select-MAY084717-Original-Tricorder/dp/B001820194
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Select-MAY084717-Original-Tricorder/dp/B001820194
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11 May 2011 23:33 #3
by ScienceChic
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Replied by ScienceChic on topic X Prize Foundation Offers $10 Million For a Tricorder
I would expect to see some version of this device within the next 5-10 years. There's more than one company racing to get the first small-scale, disposable diagnostic device commercialized. This company,
http://www.beaconbiotechnology.com/aboutpage2.html
the last I heard, was working on a microscope slide sized reader that could be used at airports to check a blood or saliva sample from passengers for every known flu virus, and have the results within 10 minutes so that people could be screened and quarantined in an epidemic in real-time. It would work for cancers, disease mutations, food contamination testing, and more.
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_13362212
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_13362212
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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