With the way technology is heading, it’s a certainty that we’ll have a gadget akin to the medical tricorders in Star Trek in the near future - particularly when similar devices like Jansen’s Tricorder and the Scanadu are in development right now. But while a device for automatically diagnosing patients would be undoubtedly useful, some people worry that this could have an adverse effect on doctor-patient relationships. When a doctor only needs a to use a machine to scan a person like an item at the grocery store, it seems like the human element of medicine could be lost. That’s part of the reason a group of graduate students created the Glove Tricorder, which equips a doctor’s hand with numerous sensors to augment the typical physical exam.
