the Tricorder project - Star Trek’s famous multitool is getting real, thanks to the work of an amazing open source collaboration called the Tricorder project. The full design-specs can be accessed freely for anybody to improve and/or build your own tricorder … no dilithium required!
One of the most beautiful aspects of science is that while there is so much we can see and smell and taste, there is such a large universe full of things we can’t directly observe. What’s more, the phenomena we learn about in science class — magnetism, pressure, or chemical structure, to name a few — aren’t simply present in some remote time or space, they’re everywhere around us — a beautiful new world to explore. Imagine if we could see them as naturally as we see light or colour. Imagine if we could see what can’t be seen…
The current design can already sense a plethora of parameters - imagine how useful this device could have been in the aftermath of Japan’s tsunami if it sported a radiation sensing “Geiger Counter”.
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