"Apparently there really is a Prime Directive, and some scientists say it's giving us as much trouble as it gave Captain Kirk."

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Using a handheld device and a corresponding app that helps you record your vitals, pretty soon a "medical tricorder" will be available to the general public for just $200!

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I voted for one of the newly discovered moons around Pluto to be named Vulcan. Did you?

Read about it here!   Vulcan, Spock's Homeworld, To Be Pinpointed Around Pluto

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Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say

I have a particularly aggressive form of progressive myopia, and when I was about 16, I lost 5 points of vision in 6 months. It was terrifying to practically watch myself go blind. To have a new set of glasses one week, and just three weeks later be unable to read the board from my desk again. Thankfully, things have slowed down. I'm still losing ( Read more... )

Starships, warp speed, transporters, phasers. Think "Star Trek" technology is only the stuff of fiction? Think again.

Dr. Peter Jansen, a PhD graduate of the Cognitive Science Laboratory at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has developed a scientific measurement device based on the tricorders used by Captain Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy ( Read more... )

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/06/06/scientists-develop-device-for-needle-less-injection/

So, I work as an IP Specialist in a patent law firm. We do quite a bit of work with the US government, and my group had a part in one of the many patents that went in to the creation of this "Trekkish" piece of technology. Both of the patent attorneys in my group are as much a Trekkie as I am (though I did beat them both on trivia) and we've been ( Read more... )