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** Not so cute when used in life or death situations such as detecting bombs as [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29459896 BBC reports].
* The [[Wikipedia: Tricorder X Prize|Tricorder X Prize]] of the 2010s was a competition designed to develop technology that could diagnose a number of conditions in a small portable device. Nobody won the full prize, but strides were made. Certainly such a device would be invaluable in areas without access to full service labs or healthcare facilities.
* In an extremely literal sense, elemental analysis technology such as X-ray fluorescence can be used to examine the elemental makeup of an object, though this is not something that should be preformed in living things.
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