A seven-member, self-funded team consisting of four siblings won the international X Prize tricorder consumer medical competition — yes, inspired by the “Star Trek” gizmo — besting 312 entrants from 38 countries, many with corporate and government backing. Final Frontier Medical Devices, led by Basil Harris, a suburban Philadelphia emergency room doctor, won the $2.6-million top prize. Harris’ only invention before the competition was a cotton candy machine he made with his brothers in grade school. In the original “Star Trek,” Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy would use the tricorder to scan and instantly diagnose a patient. “But we were always thinking beyond the X Prize.

Source: National Post April 13, 2017 13:07 UTC