TIL that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, added a clause to his contract with Paramount specifying that if anyone actually made a functioning tricorder, they’d have automatically earned the right call it a tricorder if they wanted to.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/make-it-so-open-source-arduinobased-tricorder-nears-completion-



Submitted December 30, 2014 at 01:47AM by candiedbug http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2qqpit/til_that_gene_roddenberry_the_creator_of_star/