London, Jan 13 (ANI): A person who builds Star Trek-style 'tricorder', which was used as a medical diagnosis tool in the popular television series, can win a prize of 10 million dollars.
The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize has challenged researchers to build a tool capable of capturing "key health metrics and diagnosing a set of 15 diseases," the BBC reported.
It has to be light enough for would-be Dr McCoys to carry - a maximum weight of 5lb (2.2kg).
According to the official Star Trek technical handbook, a tricorder is a portable "sensing, computing and data communications device".
The kit captured the imagination of the show's millions of viewers when it was first used in the cult series' first broadcast in 1966.
In the show, which was set in the 23rd Century, the crew's doctor was capable of using the tricorder to diagnose an illness simply by scanning a person's body.
The award organisers expect that the huge prize may motivate a present-day engineer to figure out the sci-fi gadget's secret, and "make 23rd Century science fiction a 21st Century medical reality".
"I'm probably the first guy who's here in Vegas who would be happy to lose 10m dollars," said X Prize Foundation chairman Peter Diamandis.
"The tricorder that was used by Spock and Bones inspires a vision of what healthcare will be like in the future," he added. (ANI)
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