Key Star Trek tri-corder boffinry breakthrough
Found on The Register on Wednesday, 09 June 2010
A breakthrough in small, high-powered magnets could lead to handheld magnetic resonance scanners with similar capabilities to those of today's room-sized medical and scientific instruments.
This could mean that a lot of procedures which nowadays involve sending samples off to labs or patients to hospitals could instead be done in the field using devices no bigger than a Star Trek Tricorder.
Yet we will still hear: He's dead Jim.