Talk:Tricorder

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Wow. Someone's a genius. You'd think if they were going to take pictures of their Wal-Mart toys, they could have at least made sure all the decals were on rightside up...--69.44.6.88 04:37, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey genius, those pictured on the article are actual props used on TNG, not toys. The decals don't matter as the display wouldn't be shown up close on that; they'd use a master 'hero' version for that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.38.128.89 (talk) 2006-10-18 &mdash; David Spalding Talk / Contribs

Fair use rationale for Image:Tricorders.jpg
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BetacommandBot 04:53, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Series-specific
Removed the "isolinear chips" statement from the opening paragraph as this was only in the later series. TOS used "transtators" as their computing Wundertech. --Noclevername (talk) 14:49, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Martin Cooper

 * The tricorder prop for the original Star Trek series was designed and built by Wah Ming Chang, one of several futuristic props he created under his contract. Some of his designs are considered to have been influential on later, real-world consumer electronics devices. For instance, his communicator inspired Martin Cooper's research on mobile telephony.

I fixed the weasel words here, but the logic here is not quite satisfactory: the communicator's visual design did not inspire Martin Cooper&mdash;he was inspired by its functionality. Do we have better examples? &mdash;Leif Arne Storset 10:35, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Roddenberry's contract
This article mentions a clause in Gene Roddenberry's contract with Desilu which allowed any company who actually created a Star Trek device to use its name. This is also stated on the Star Trek wiki Memory Alpha's page on tricorders. However neither this article nor MA's article give a reference and I can't find any primary sources for it. Does anyone know where this story comes from? It certainly has the ring of truth to it (sounds exactly like something Roddenberry would have done) but a source is needed. --87.82.207.195 (talk) 21:58, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

A "real" Tricorder at Kickstarter
[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903107259/scio-your-sixth-sense-a-pocket-molecular-sensor-fo SCiO: Your Sixth Sense. A Pocket Molecular Sensor For All] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.126.216.194 (talk) 13:01, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
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External links modified
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Picture of Star Trek tricorder?
Came to page looking for info about tricorder in Star Trek, specifically pictures.

Did not find such pictures. A picture of George Takei showing just the back of a tricorder prop is not helpful. No idea what it looks like.

A picture of Sulu using a tricorder would be useful if we could see the tricorder. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.98.142 (talk) 20:56, 1 June 2016 (UTC)