Brilliant, we need more focused and imaginative people like this who have an enthusiasm and ethic to help others too.

With low cost 3D printing on the horizon, lots of these opportunities can burgeon and engage the intellect :-)

Would like a version that sequences the DNA of prospective partners at the coffee shop, club or on a date, you never know what we might find ;-)

Thankyou :-)

Awesome. Warp drive - you are next.

Brilliant, we need more focused and imaginative people like this who have an enthusiasm and ethic to help others too.
Would like a version that sequences the DNA of prospective partners at the coffee shop, club or on a date, you never know what we might find ;-) "

With low cost 3D printing on the horizon, lots of these opportunities can burgeon and engage the intellect :-)

or find dna of STD pathogens

Would like a version that sequences the DNA of prospective partners at the coffee shop, club or on a date, you never know what we might find ;-)


or find dna of std pathogens

This thing will probably be used by the Ghost Hunters soon and I predict that it will identify new and different forms of phantasms every single episode.

This is impressive, not so much compared to Star Trek but because of simply what it is and what it can do at this early stage, as a one man open source project.
We need more of this type of activity and attitude to create and produce as individuals.
I have a 'Tricorder' app for my Android phone. It is just a toy really, but it makes full use of the sensors the phone has and does integrate the info and display it well. It also pulls in data about my environment from the internet. It is another example of a nice bit of free code produced by someone, just for fun, but also useful.
I really believe that if there was some kind of species-wide attitude shift towards spending more time learning how to create and produce for ourselves, in our free time, instead of this emphasis on pure consumption, that would be a wonderful thing. The creative resources available to individuals at this time are staggering.

Let us hope that he retains the right to his product and that it is not stolen by the pirates.
He should talk to CSIRO who featured in an earlier article on their WIFI development.

Let us hope that he retains the right to his product and that it is not stolen by the pirates.
He should talk to CSIRO who featured in an earlier article on their WIFI development.


Wi-Fi was invented by an induvidual, that induvidual didnt get a cent. The CSIRO/Wi-fi case is an example of everything which is wrong with patents.

http://www.webtro...ard.html

The real tricorder is something that attaches to your smartphone

StarGazer2011 offered simplistic negative aspect
Wi-Fi was invented by an induvidual, that induvidual didnt get a cent. The CSIRO/Wi-fi case is an example of everything which is wrong with patents
This depends on the terms under which an employee is hired, I'm pretty sure he got a salary and may be in line for a percentage depending on how he values his own work.

From my own experience of the CSIRO, you may start with an idea but the infrastructure is in a position to develop it further and pay the rather large sums for patent protection strategies. Its nowhere near as simple as the implication in your post.

Don't know the situation with the person now but, if he is in the echelon with CSIRO then I'm sure he has the intelligence to ensure he feels well recompensed.

@dirk_bruere
Very true, we have leaped over the tricorder re the smartphone & potential attached devices though, I as an engineer always expect a couple of plugs for the use of voltage/current probes for V,I,W etc...

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