Engineering Student Builds Functional Star Trek Tricorder

Engineering Student Peter Jensen made fully functional Star Trek tricorder in his spare time. It has quite a lot of features to help you explore:

The Tricorder Mark 1 is, for all practical purposes, nearly identical to the device that we see in Star Trek, with the possible exception of being unable to reliably distinguish a Klingon from a Romulan. It’s a self-contained, portable sensor system that can measure ambient temperature, humidity, air pressure, magnetic fields, surface temperatures, colors, ambient light level, ambient polarization, acceleration, direction, distance (ultrasonically), and of course it has a GPS receiver.

[Via Geekologie]