Actual technology that will bring about "tricorder-like" sensing: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=568 http://www.technovelgy.com/

Actual technology that will bring about "tricorder-like" sensing: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=568 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsN... Hyperspectral imaging also introduces the possibility of identifying all the objects in a scene. Terahertz waves can even "look through walls" of most material. Heck, we can do that with simple radio waves and enough computing power.[1] The only thing keeping that bench-top from being miniaturized into a handheld device are further electronic miniaturization and a phased array software antenna. [1] http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/ll-seeing-through-walls-1018.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/ll-seeing-through-walls-1...