Comment on How plausible is a medical tricorder?
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Dunno if youve heard of it, but a number of years ago, there was a company called Theranos, a scam that claimed they could test for all manner of diseases in a short time with just a drop of your blood.
Note that i said “scam” because its obviously BS. Im not familiar with the exact medical capabilities of the tricorder (only ever watched a handful of episodes) but i feel like real next-level medical analysis would come via nano-robots in the bloodstream, not some external device. Then again, its been a couple of years since i heard of advancements in the nano-robot category too.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah I saw the whole Theranos thing. I know a lot of this stuff isn’t possible for now at least. I was just curious if in principle there are physical things stopping this from ever being reality or not. I remember part of the thing with Theranos was something about the machines not even being big enough for the size of the things they were looking at or something like that.