Zensor device
The X Prize Foundation is hosting a $10 million competition to develop a mobile health-monitoring device that can diagnose and interpret a set of 15 medical conditions and monitor five vital signs, just like the medical tricorder device in the fictional "Star Trek" universe. Here are devices from some of the finalists.
At left: Team Zensor, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, developed a device that can measure echocardiogram (ECG), respiration rate, temperature, motion, and blood and urine samples.
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Danvantri device
Team Danvantri, headquartered in Chennai, India, has a device that can measure blood pressure, temperature and blood oxygen, and is working on a newer version that can also measure ECG, breathing, blood chemistry and glucose.
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MESI device
Team MESI Simplifying diagnostics, of Ljubljiana, Slovenia, has a system that consists of a medical wristband and modules that monitor vital signs from sight, sound, urine and blood.
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Final Frontier device
Team Final Frontier Medical Devices, of Paoli, Pennsylvania, developed a device that uses artificial intelligence that draws on experience with real emergency room patients.
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DMI device
Team DMI, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a device which they tested on a series of parabolic "zero-G" flights - the conditions a real star traveler might experience!
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CloudDx device
Team CloudDx of Toronto, Canada, has developed a necklace and cuff that can measure pulse, ECG, blood oxygenation and temperature, as well as other medical parameters.
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