From: Steve Baker (sjbaker1@airmail.net)
Date: Thu Aug 25 2005 - 03:40:52 EEST
Brock Hinzmann wrote:
> The flip-out design of many cell phones is certainly influenced by one
> of the Star Trek communicators.
> I'd like to see some of the medical devices they used come to fruition,
...it's a start. There was also a 'real, working' tricorder for sale
for a while:
"A real-world device comparable to the tricorder
was developed by the Canadian company Vital
Technologies Corporation in 1996. Known as the
TR-107 Mark 1, 10,000 of them were sold before
the company went out of business. The TR-107 could
scan electromagnetic radiation, temperature, and
barometric pressure."
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