It looks like a cross between a flip top phone and the medical scanner used by Dr McCoy in the TV series Star Trek.

BBC: How the hand-held ultrasound scanner works

The Canadian Space Agency is on the verge of making the Star Trek Medical Tricorder a reality with the Microflow, a medical scanner that's currently in development.

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