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Michigan Tech Students Build Their Own 'TRIcorder'.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, May, 2004
Byline: Michigan Technological University
HOUGHTON, Mich., May 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of students at Michigan Technological University has developed a new plug-and-play device that might someday do anything from track local weather to measure the gas mileage on your car. But for now, they think it could be a boon to science educators.
Dubbed the TRIcorder for short in honor of Star Trek's universal diagnostic tool, the Transportable Research Instrument System has three parts: a Palm Pilot hand-held computer to process and display data, a cube to gather that data, and special docking device that electronically links the two other parts and lets them work together.
The heart of the TRIcorder's power and versatility is the data cube....
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