Upcoming X PRIZE: Star Trek Technology in the Palm of Your Hand

Hi all,

There is a new X prize coming up, to make a medical "tricorder" with a
$10 million dollar prize, the exact details of the device requirements
aren't released yet, but it made me start to think about cheaper and
simpler ways to measure things..

Here is the link to the prize:
http://www.xprize.org/node/1711

cheers,
Jamie

 

Hi,

What about using 3d ultrasound to image the heart and then also
listening to it acoustically? I'm not saying this would work to
determine blood pressure, but I know there is a lot of unused data in
simple measurements that could theoretically be used. A lot of blood
pressure depedent data will go into the ultrasound ADC's and the
acoustic ADC, the tricky part is trying to figure out how to separate
this from all the other variables that make up the 3D shape and sound of
the heart. Ideally a simple measurement device would quantify as many
variables as possible, that is the interesting part to figure out how to
do that. I think a simple 1kV pulsed spark gap with good measurement
circuitry could theoretically be used as a mass spectrometer with enough
effort or also many other things!

cheers,
Jamie

 

Well, they've already done the huge flat-screen display and the "tapes,"
which are multi-gigabyte "thumb" drives; I'm holding out for the replicator
and the transporter.

And warp drive, of course. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich