Star Trek technology of the future saving lives and time today

Published on July 30, 2008 By CharlesCS In Gadgets & Electronics

"Beam me up Scotty".

According to an article on ZDNet.com it would seem that some of Star Treks cool gadgets are making their way to hospitals paving the way to new ways to assist patients more efficiently.

On the article 'Star Trek" communicators free up doctors' time then talk about a new "Star Trek-like" communications system based on small communicators the staff at a hospital carry that allows them to contact any member in the hospital without having to leave the current location they are at or completely disrupt the current task they are performing to look for a phone or the person.

Pretty neat gadget in my opinion. It actually works like the communicators Sean Luke Picard uses by saying a persons name or their function and voila, instant connection. Nextel eat you heart out. While the gadget does seem a bit big considering the original (but sci-fi) version on the TV show was the size of a charm (during the Next Generation and on series anyways) it has the potential to become somewhat smaller in the future, possible resembling the TV show badge made to look like the Hospitals logo or something.

I look forward to seeing such devices in more and more hospitals around the country. It's both efficient with room for improvments and a life saving device by being able to contact someone in a situation where a phone may not be easily accessable.

Comments

ParaTed2k

on Jul 30, 2008

When cel phone technology got to the point we could say, "Home" into them and the number would be dialed for us, I figured this bit of fiction turned fact couldn't be far off.

There was an episode of TNG where I doubt even the writers caught the full potential of their gizmo. Dr. Pulaski contracted a particularly nasty bug that sped up the aging process. Of course, if nothing were done for her, she would die of old age in a matter of days. The magic remedy? Run her through the trasporter, but instead of letting the machine take its course, intercept her matrix and replace it with he pre nasty bug matrix for the re-entry.

It worked like a charm.

Think about what that means. Scientists are already working on a transporter device that they have had limited success with. When they perfect it, all we have to do is go through it once in what we consider our "prime". Then, any time we get sick, or start aging beyond what we want, all we have to do is go back through the transporter. Since the nasty bug isn't part of our "default" matrix, we would be immediately cured. Our bodies would also return to default.

Kind of like a restore function, but for our bodies instead of our PCs. :~D

SanChonino

on Jul 30, 2008

Sean Luke Picard

Jean-Luc Picard.

Other than that, cool article.

Dr Guy

on Jul 30, 2008

When cel phone technology got to the point we could say, "Home" into them

I actually saw it when the cell phone became the size of the original ST communicator.

CharlesCS

on Jul 30, 2008

When cel phone technology got to the point we could say, "Home" into them and the number would be dialed for us, I figured this bit of fiction turned fact couldn't be far off.

I thought that was pretty neat stuff but hardly ever got it to work right. Dam thing didn't like my voice.

I remember that episode. I have always thought about those possibilities.

Just being about to filter the bad stuff while being transported sounds awesome and scary at the same time. Star Trek makes it look like most people on the show hardly ever make human errors, I just can't see such a thing possible in real life. Imagine going in fat after eating Burger Kind a lot and coming out nice and slim. LOL. The perfect exercise machine.

CharlesCS

on Jul 30, 2008

Jean-Luc Picard.

Other than that, cool article.

Sorry about that, I knew it was wrong but was such in a rush to post it I didn't double check it.

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