Factory Entertainment Unveils Star Trek: The Next Generation Medical Tricorder Replica, Shipping in Late 2024

I'm gonna take this to ren faire and whip it out when I'm just barely out of line of sight

I mean, cool.

It's just that my early 21st century cellphone has more sensors than this 24th century device... 💁‍♂️

This disappoints me so much because it's just a toy, when we have the technology to make a scanning device that is basically a real one (not as magically good, though). I've seen phone addons for scientific research that can scan things for various things. Like a glucose monitor, Geiger counter, barometer, light sensor, blood pressure monitor, and more; with no reason why a single device couldn't have all of these things in one other than maybe cost.

Wake me up when it's functional

We basically have a lot of highly advanced technologies already. I don't think it'll be long until our lives look like Star Trek.