We have a winner: The grand prize for creating the medical diagnostic gadget of the future goes to team DMI, from Cambridge, Massachusetts. DMI beat out the other finalists for the US $525,000 award with a trio of instruments designed for medical researchers, health care providers, and consumers.
The Nokia Sensing XChallenge asked inventors to come up with portable gadgets that anybody could use to collect accurate, real-time health information. It’s related to another contest, the Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize, which the DMI team is competing in as well. Team leader Eugene Chan says the sensing challenge allowed him to develop his core technology; he’s now adapting his consumer device to meet the requirements of the tricorder contest. To be a winner there, Chan’s device will have to diagnose 15 specific ailments and also get high marks on consumer experience.
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| Tricorder as seen on Star Trek, TOS |
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Published on Mar 12, 2014
By incorporating real ultimate high
tech scientific cross disciplinary achievements, at DMI we are close to
bringing to reality a concept taken from science fiction, The Tricorder.
Our version is a universal blood sensor that integrates a broad set of
medical diagnostics in a compact portable unit.Team Leader: Eugene Y Chan MD
Cambridge, MA, United States
The $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE is truly a global competition to revolutionize digital healthcare. We have officially registered teams from around the world ready to compete with health technologies they believe will radically transform the healthcare industry.
Teams | Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE
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