Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteM to Star Trek Social Club@startrek.websiteEnglish · 5 months agoFactory Entertainment Unveils Star Trek: The Next Generation Medical Tricorder Replica, Shipping in Late 2024blog.trekcore.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1104arrow-down12
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minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoCan your cellphone identify the chemical composition of rocks 1000 feet underground, or scan someone for invasive pathogens, or identify lifeforms 10 KM away?
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoOf course not, but the 24th century ones can.
Can your cellphone identify the chemical composition of rocks 1000 feet underground, or scan someone for invasive pathogens, or identify lifeforms 10 KM away?
No.
Can this Tricorder?
Of course not, but the 24th century ones can.