Remember the 'Star Trek' tricorder? These inventors built one -- and could win $9M

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Daily Herald

Harris assembled a seven-member team -- himself, three of his siblings and three friends -- all of whom were managing full-time jobs. They worked nights and weekends in his home outside Philadelphia, crashed after 72-hour engineering marathons, churned out prototype after prototype on three 3-D printers in Harris' jumble of an office, each plastic part taking up to 24 hours to fabricate and with his three children, ages 11 to 15, often overseeing sanding and wiring.

The XPrize field began with 312 teams from 38 countries.

Now, improbably, Harris' group is one of two finalists for the $9 million prize. The winner is scheduled to be announced April 12.

Harris' competition is Dynamical Biomarkers Group, as formidable as its name: a group of 50 physicians, scientists and programmers, many of them paid for their work, led by Harvard Medical School professor C.K. Peng, a physicist with a 29-page résumé, and backed by the Taiwanese cellphone leviathan HTC and the Taiwanese government.

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The science, engineering and most importantly the humanity and love in that article is inspiring. The invention is nothing less than groundbreaking and amazing.

Very much worth the read.