futuramb:  (via Xprize and Qualcomm will offer $10 million for the Tricorder Xprize) The Tricorder X PRIZE is a $10 million prize to develop a mobile solution that can diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians. The X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm seeks to achieve this by combining advancements in expert systems and medical point of care data such as wireless sensors, advancements in medical imaging and microfluidics. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this. Especially since many of the components to really achieve this is available in myriads of small research projects, not to mention embedded in different apps.  Amazing. We wanted a Tricorder and got an iPhone. Give it time.
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