DxtER the closest thing available to Star Trek’s illustrious medical tricorder which is an oft referenced benchmark for diagnostic automation.

The $2.6 million purse for the four-year long Tricorder X-Prize contest sponsored by Qualcomm Foundation went to the Pennsylvanian-based Final Frontier team, led by brothers Basil Harris, an emergency medicine physician, and George Harris, a network engineer.

A $1 million second place purse went to the Taiwan-based Dynamic Biomarkers Team, led by Harvard Medical School Professor Chung-Kang Peng and funded by HTC. A third prize of $100,000 was awarded to the Cloud Dx Team, called a “Bold Epic Innovator” for its demonstration, which was “outside the criteria” of the competition rules.

FINAL FRONTIER MEDICAL DEVICES AND DYNAMICAL BIOMARKERS GROUP DEVELOP THE FIRST CONSUMER-FOCUSED, MOBILE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICES INSPIRED BY THE MEDICAL TRICORDER OF STAR TREK®