Conservative Daily News » engineers http://www.conservativedailynews.com The best conservative political news, analysis and opinion articles written by a collection of citizen journalists. Covering a range of important topics in blogs, op-ed, and news posts, these upstanding patriots are bringing back American exceptionalism with every entry.. Sat, 18 May 2013 20:49:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Get Your Tricorder Here http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/11/get-your-tricorder-here/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=get-your-tricorder-here http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/11/get-your-tricorder-here/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:57:35 +0000 Teresa Wendt http://www.conservativedailynews.com/?p=75984 Star Trek fans will love this. The tricorders from early episodes is closer to reality.

Scientific America: A team of students has designed a Star Trek-inspired sensing device that can beam environmental data to a smart phone.The tricorder device is the team’s response to a challenge from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: “Is there an effective way to integrate external sensors with smart phones and can we globalize this information?” Applications could range from data collection for research to educational hands-on activities to disaster-zone assessment.

Bones would be proud.

 

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