Having a tiny device do all that is hard enough. Asking for it do so remotely makes me think they think we're actually living in a fantasy universe.
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That's terrifying.
Chances are they don't think anybody will actually make one, they're just curious in seeing what comes of it and giving medical tech innovation a boost.
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Well, a contest like this is almost entirely for the attempts at innovation that could come out of it, right? So long as it doesn't have a time limit, someone could claim that prize at some point.
Yeah, I suppose setting unreasonable goals is a good way to get people to do their best. Hadn't thought of it that way.
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I like this. Bonus points if it looks like the TOS version.
edited 11th Jan '12 12:18:15 PM by pvtnum11
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Hm, blood pressure would require physical contact. Temperature is doable with an IR detector of some kind. Pulse rate you could do with some kind of precision motion detector, but you'd need the thing to be held steadily, contact would be more effective.
Depending on what kind of physical sensors you decide to give it, I think you could make it with a sensor attachment that you stick to the forehead or something. It would also likely be able to identify common symptoms through these sensors and make reasonable guesses at the disease. It would also, theoretically, have the ability to do a search of family history and what not if a large enough database existed.
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Respiratory rate should be easy, and doable with just audio, depending on how much is actually needed.
edited 11th Jan '12 4:42:35 PM by Deboss
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Yeah but would it be able to push shopping carts?
edited 11th Jan '12 4:50:18 PM by Tongzhi
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They're actually doing heart rate and blood pressure RIGHT NOW using lasers. Honestly if it's going to be done that's probably how it's going to be done.
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The formal requirements for the device are fairly loose currently. I believe the only formal requirements at this point is that it's to be no more than 5 pounds and consumer safe. The latter probably also means any sensing has to be non-invasive (rather than non-contact).
The wireless is probably referring to a capability of the device to upload it's data to be remotely accessed. (by a physician, perhaps)
Still, a very impressive piece of tech if someone manages to pull it off with it being able to accurately diagnose diseases. Because "merely" taking vitals and other measurements is pretty dumb work for a machine, but actually attaching a diagnosis is a whole other matter.
edited 11th Jan '12 6:06:39 PM by GreatLich
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Question, are those handheld or grafted to something stable?
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Yeah, I mean...the dudes with a nigh-on encyclopedic knowledge of these things who are actually poking you and thinking about what other tests to cross-check things can only do so much to ID a disease on sight. Diagnosis isn't quite the dichotomous key people seem to think.
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I like these types of things. Just a flat prize for doing something important.
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Regardless of whether this will be done in time or not, the tricorder is one step closer to reality it seems:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/23/scientists-produce-stronger-t-rays-bring-tricorders-closer-to-r/
Wish that all doctors had medical tricorders like they do on the Star Trek? Well Qualcom has announced a seven million dollar prize for the first team to develop a functional tricorder device
. There's also some runner-up prizes. The device has to weigh no more than five pounds, and be able to diagnose 15 common diseases - in addition to taking blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate, and a variety of other common vitals that doctors would be concerned with, and it has to do so wireless if possible.