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WIN A Grove Leather Back

As of today, New Rising Media has been visited by 180,000 people.  Quite frankly, we would love to thank each and every one of you personally; but since this is rather counter-productive and trust me, you wouldn't want us at your door, we figured a giveaway was the next best thing.

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$10m Reward Proposed To Inventor of Star Trek-esque ‘Tricorder’

Aiming to “make 23rd Century science-fiction a 21st Century medical reality”, X Prize Foundation’s organizers have offered up a prize of $10 million (£6.5m) to anyone who can invent a Star Trek-alike medical ‘tricorder’ – influenced by the tool used by Spock and Bones in the popular sci-fi show. Launched at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the foundation’s competition page for the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize reads: 

“Imagine a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. That’s the technology envisioned by this competition, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal health metrics. The end result: Radical innovation in healthcare that will give individuals far greater choices in when, where, and how they receive care.” 

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