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The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize has its winner, but work on tricorders will continue

By Jonah Comstock 12:00 am April 13, 2017

After more than five years of designing, building, and testing versatile, portable consumer medical devices, the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize has announced a winner. Final Frontier Medical Devices, a small team led by engineer-turned ER doctor Basil Harris and his brother George (also an engineer) won the top prize of $2.6 million. Runner-up Dynamical Biomarkers Group will walk away...

Tricorder X Prize, nearing a close, narrows competition to two teams

By Jonah Comstock 03:53 pm December 13, 2016

The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize has narrowed its finalists down to two: Taiwan-based Dynamical Biomarkers and Paoli, Pennsylvania-based Final Frontier Medical Devices. The final phase of the contest will involve user testing at the Altman Clinical Translational Research Institute at the University of California San Diego. "It is an impressive achievement for these two teams to advance to the...