The $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE

This sounds interesting at first (I thought they must have some hardware kit for you), but I'm thinking 10 million isn't very much money for a 'tricorder' independently developed. If they were offering up some new qualcomm sensors or whatever, ok, but this just sounds like wishful thinking.

Probably be better if they did a Tricorder YC and gave a bunch of different teams a few thousand bucks to try and develop pieces of technology for something like this. Just a heartrate monitor for a phone would be amazing, and I mean one you could just point at someone, not a separate device. Extra wires just wouldn't make it a tricorder imho ;)