When Star Trek’s Captain Picard presses his communicator badge, he can instantly speak with any member of his crew — even when they’ve beamed down to a planet or a nearby spaceship. A company called ...

Star Trek fans and cosplayers, do you want a Next Generation comm badge that actually works? ThinkGeek has the solution for you. The novelty item retailer opened up pre-orders for a Bluetooth-enabled ...

Humane, a company established by former Apple executives, has revealed the name of its wearable "Star Trek"-style communicator that it first showed off in April 2023. After that sneak peek of its ...

The startup behind a Star Trek-like communicator badge has quietly fixed a demo video that showed the product making two mistakes in retrieving information for the user. Last week, Humane introduced ...

And you thought Google’s ideas came from years of analysis, thoughtful design and just being way smarter than the rest of us. Nope. It seems that sometimes the company’s engineers just watched TV. At ...

We have seen quite a few of these fun homemade iPhone cases before on Geeky Gadgets, and the latest one will appeal to all the Star Trek fans out there: the Star Trek Communicator iPhone Case. This ...

Apple has been researching how to make a small, wearable loudspeaker that would use beamformed audio to make it clearly audible to the wearer, yet not disturb anyone else. Apple calls a newly-granted ...

Now this is what we call enterprising - Google actually made a working prototype of the pin-badge communicator from Star Trek. Amit Singhal, a senior vice president at the search engine firm, gave us ...

Star Trek, from the original series to the 2009 J.J. Abrams film reboot, has inspired generations to look to the stars, to believe that humanity will overcome their petty differences, and that we are ...

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