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Credit: Yasuhide Fumoto
Live out in the boondocks? Hate hospitals? Dread the cold, clammy hands of your doctor? If only there was way to be remotely diagnosed by a mobile, medical device (who perhaps lives in your Smartphone) that is just as competent as your physician.
Any innovators staking claim to blueprints for such a device, time to dust them off.
The X Prize Foundation, which bills itself as "the leading nonprofit organization solving the world's Grand Challenges of our time by creating and managing large-scale, global incentivized competitions," recently announced a collaboration with Qualcomm Incorporated to design the Tricorder X PRIZE, a $10 million prize to develop a mobile solution capable of diagnosing patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians.
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