Two finalists in the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE join forces to take the Star Trek Tricorder from fiction to fact.
Jim McLaughlin, chief technology officer of Intelesens and director at Ulster University’s Nanotechnology and Integrated BioEngineering Centre, has joined forces with Team Scanadu in a bid to win the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE.
The Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE is a $10m competition to create a medical Tricorder inspired by those seen in Star Trek. To win the competition the device created needs to be able to capture key health metrics, such as blood pressure, respiratory rate and temperature, and diagnose a set…
