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*** Not anymore. [http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/02/2229200/Android-Tricorder-Killed-By-CBS CBS killed it].
* Hyperspectral sensors allow there to be so much information in an image that a computer can determine exactly what materials everything in it is made of.
* Clearly fraudulent, but cute nonetheless: one company in America makes dowsing rods that can detect anything from [http://www.skepdic.com/quadro.html lost golf balls] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105100600/http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html to marijuana in school lockers].
** Not so cute when used [https://web.archive.org/web/20120902081038/http://news.discovery.com/tech/bomb-detecting-dowsing-rod-demonstrates-danger-of-pseudoscience.html here]
* Recently, an X-Prize-like competition has been launched that will reward whoever comes up with a small, portable device similar to a tricorder that can take accurate medical readings off of a patient with a minimum of intrusion (including heart rate, glucose, arterial pressure and infections), and possibly even give a diagnosis. It's believed that it would be invaluable in Third World countries where experienced doctors are hard to come by.
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