Before going into the sensors, after the first design (the Mark 1), each of my “tricorder projects” has examined a different aspect of the design of a pocket-sized handheld multisensor device ...

Credit: Pete Pachal/Mashable LAS VEGAS -- The smartphone is often called the real-world version of the handheld communicators ... verge of becoming common. The tricorder-- the device that Spock ...

That one includes a molecular scanner for identifying ... hopes to get his Final Frontier Dexter tricorder, which features wearable sensors and the hand-held forehead temperature reader, into ...