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X-Prize wants to bring the medical tricorder from Star Trek to life.

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ph4zr:

--- Quote from: NaRu on May 17, 2011, 05:08:42 AM ---also the power needed to run these scans. They are smoking if they think any battery is produce that much power.

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Not necessarily. The specs seem to indicate the device needs to do this on its own, but if that wasn't required they could offload the actual data processing to a server set up for that purpose.

Thermometers, even the non-touch IR ones, read temperature data without needing a battery change every five seconds, and obviously phones these days are more than capable of taking pictures and receiving and transmitting sound data for hours* at a time. For things like X-rays or MRIs, even if we could stick it in a tiny package**, I'm not sure you'd want to due to the radiation/magnetism.

*Just how many hours really depends on how crappy the battery is... -Evo4G rage-
**Why not? Add an attachment for the imaging aspect, that you wouldn't need to carry around all the time.


--- Quote from: kitamesume on May 17, 2011, 05:17:29 AM ---thats more expensive than doing the actual scan, imho the identification chip implant costs more than a  hundred dollars.

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Maybe, since it serves a specialized function, but I doubt they'd need to if they went into mass production. An iPod only costs a couple hundred bucks. You can get pretty cheap mobos, too. And, obviously storage is cheap as dirt at the flash level. A single chip, even if it has to be bio-safe and able to emit a readable signal, shouldn't have to cost more than that. /IM(non tech-savvy)O

kitamesume:
they should actually learn how to do ancient martial arts(teh scientists duh) and learn how to read life forces, attach a bracelet that reads your life force and voala, you got your self a first-person-shooter style hp indicator.

other than that, thermo scanner, pulse & blood pressure scanner and breath scanner(the ones used on drunk peoples to see how drunk he/she is and integrate a bacteria density detector to see how sick the person is(effective on the common cold)) these are the only ones that i could think of that`ll fit a cellphone without that much battery drain.

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