Scanadu’s Medical Tricorder Will Measure Your Vital Signs In Seconds

No more searching the medicine cabinet for the thermometer or being worried that your blood pressure is too high. Just hold this device up to your temple for a moment and you can start to track your health. It was less than a year ago that we first wrote about Scanadu's ambitions of building a Star Trek-worthy medical tricorder--a handheld device that can quickly record vital signs and diagnose diseases. At the time, co-founder Misha Chellam estimated that a prototype tricorder would be ready by the end of 2012. And this week, the NASA-Ames Research Center-based startup, announced that it will have a prototype that meets that deadline. The Scanadu SCOUT is incredibly easy to use--just raise the handheld device (connected by Bluetooth to a smartphone) to your temple, and wait 10 seconds for it to scan your vital signs, including temperature, ECG, SPO2, heart rate, and breathing rate...