Tricorder X Prize
| Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | developing a device that can "diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians" |
| Country | Worldwide |
| Presented by | X PRIZE Foundation (sponsored by Qualcomm) |
| Reward | Grand Prize US$7 million Second Prize US$2 million Third Prize US$1 million |
| First awarded | 2014 |
| Official website | http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/ |
The Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE is an inducement prize contest, offering a US$10 million Grand Prize, US$2 million Second Prize, and US$1 million Third Prize to the best among the finalists offering an automatic non-invasive health diagnostics packaged into a single portable device that weighs no more than 5 pounds (2.3 kg), able to diagnose over a dozen medical conditions, including whooping cough, hypertension, mononucleosis, shingles, melanoma, HIV, and osteoporosis.[1][2] The name is taken from the tricorder device from the science fiction TV series Star Trek which can be used to instantly diagnose ailments.[3][4] The prize was announced by the X Prize Foundation on 10 May 2011 and subsequently launched on 10 January 2012 at CES 2012.[5] Devices will be sent to the USA to be independently tested on patients during the winter and spring of 2015.
Finalists
The finalists include:[1]
- Aezon (USA) - Student engineers team from Johns Hopkins University partnering with the Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design.
- CloudDX (Canada) - Team from medical devices company Biosign and led by company chief medical officer Sonny Kohli.
- Danvantri (India) - Team from technology company American Megatrends India and led by Sridharan Mani.
- DMI (USA) - Team led by Eugene Y. Chan of the DNA Medicine Institute partnering with NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Dynamical Biomarkers Group (Taiwan) - Team led by Chung-Kang Peng of the Harvard Medical School.
- Final Frontier Medical Devices (USA) - Team led by brothers Basil and George Harris, founders of Basil Leaf Technologies.
- MESI (Slovenia) - Team from medical device company MESI, partnering with Jozef Stefan Institute, D.Labs, and Gigodesign, led by Jakob Susteric.
- SCANADU (USA) - Team from SCANADU, led by Walter De Brouwer.
- SCANurse (UK) - Team from medical company SCANurse, led by Anil Vaidya.
- Zensor (Ireland) - Team from medical company Intelesens, led by Jim McLaughlin.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Finalists selected for $10M Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize, CNET, 27 August 2014
- ↑ 8 Star Trek Technologies Moving From Science Fiction To Science Fact, Forbes, 24 June 2014
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