Find out more about this Star Trek Tricorder replica at www.thewandcompany.com/star-trek-tricorder/ and www.thewandcompany.com/blog/page/2/ NOTE: This is not a sponsored video. No money or product was exchanged. We just thought it was cool!

I worked at NASA-Langley, an R&D facility for nearly 10 years, and one of the great joys during my time there was when they would do a press conference about a new invention or patent, and the press would ask, “How did you come up with the idea for this?”, and 9 times out of 10, the answer would be, “Well, when I was a kid, I was watching Star Trek…” I will never stop smiling about this. Trust me, whatever you’re wanting to see, they’re working on it.

I’m not a collector of replicas but $300 for something of this detail and quality is well worth it for Trek fans!

Best ever prop replica I have ever seen hands down. Only 300$? Wow they outdone themselves

I really enjoyed this because he was literally doing a product demo. Explaining some parts were still samples and not final. But you can also tell there is a genuine love for the device. The brief frustration in his voice when he had the tricorder on the stand and the strap didn’t really have anywhere to go. Just a beautiful piece of craftsmanship and presentation.

"Cosplay was the process of pouring your body into a narrative that meant something to you." "It's a ludicrous object. And its existence feels like a spectacular nod to the stories that build us." Adam, this is why what you do; who you are, is so validating. You channel and give currency to the relationship sci-fi fans have to these treasured imaginary worlds that we grew up with. Your passion for this material validates what many of us have felt our whole lives - that these books, these shows, these comics were/are/will aways be more than mere stories. They liberate our imaginations to go places and experience things that are beyond our everyday experience. I am so glad you do what you do. For me, I was cosplaying Star Trek as a child of the 1970's long before "cosplay" was part of the vernacular. To us, a 9v battery was a Type 1 phaser. A metal Surcrets box was a communicator. And those metal flip top Band-Aid boxes were our tricorders. But this beautiful, shockingly functional replica prop touches on the same joy we exerienced with those crude stand-ins of my childhood.

The Captain's logs function blew my mind. That's amazing.

Nerding out over gadgets Adam is my favorite Adam.

An SD card slot and video player would be a huge benefit to this, imagine storing all of the TOS episodes on it and being able to watch them on the tricorder itself!

Love that Wand Company have incorporated real-life functionality into the Tricorder, and the retro leather holster is such a nice touch! :D

My favorite bit of kit from TOS. Aside from being one of the best episodes, "City On The Edge of Forever" actually showed close-ups of the bloody thing. (It wasn't until I got my Starfleet Technical Manual that I could imagine how it might work.) Seeing this exist is fantastic! "It will be mine. Oh, yes -- it will be mine."

Adam should’ve worn his Star Fleet uniform. The craftsmanship, the VFX, the sound fx, so cool. 10/10

my dad passed away a few months ago and he absolutely loved star wars and star trek, he would go see every movie the day after opening night and each series as it came out and he would have absolutely love these

Going boldly where no prop has gone before!

Not a Trek Nerd but this piece of kit is impressive in design, build quality, functionality and value proposition.

26:18 I remember asking my dad back when the show was in prime time, if he thought they would ever make self opening doors like they had on the Enterprise. He didn't know. But about 10 years later, they were being installed in buildings everywhere.

I can’t remember the last time I felt like a little kid. This did it. I’m still smiling ear to ear .😊

I've been waiting YEARS for this to finish development having already bought the phaser and communicator. This is a MUST-HAVE for me. It's an incredible piece of kit. LOVE IT!

At 7:12 the dude is talkign about the reds changing in video and then it cuts to another angle of the chips and the red one looks different.

Beyond his deep understanding and love of his products, Chris proves himself in these videos to be such a master at storytelling and conversation. Could listen to him for hours.

Every time I come to this channel, I get reminded that people are awesome

FINALLY, It's here! This is a lifelong dream come true. I love the Wand Company. I have the Phaser and Communicator. Now I'll be able to add the Tricorder to my Star Trek display!! Next up: the Medical Tricorder!

My god this is MAGNIFICENT. I think I am going to have to buy two...first time for anything...I'm getting two! I wish Gene were alive to see this!!! Thanks to the Wand Company for an engineering marvel and for thanks to Adam for showcasing this fantastic creation brought to real life!!!

i can't believe what i just saw. the ships logs???!?!? that alone is absolutely staggering. i think i'm gonna cry

Thanks to him for caring so much.

Tricorders are my favorite Star Trek props from every series and movie. Man, this one is a beauty!

As Adam says, this is a ludicrous object, but it's a nod to the stories that inspired us. So many people working in science today acknowledge Star Trek as a major influence when young.

I remember talking to Bill about what he thought about the flip phone it when it first came out and how it resembled the communicator. This is whole new amazing level :) Thanks for making and sharing this !

I have been waiting for this ever since they first announced it years ago, cannot wait! It looks amazing

I gotta say this was thoroughly enjoyable. As a 10 year old kid who faithfully watched Star Trek as it aired each week in the seventies, this is so cool.

Not into Star Trek. But that’s a lot packed into that. And it’s fun watching Adam geek out.

Ordered the Pip boy and now signed up and registered for this one! I'm in! Met Shatner at a con a few years back and had him sign my model Enterprise ship replica. Now i gotta get him to sign this too.

As a life-long Trekkie, I can emphatically say that this is the collector's item I've been dreaming of since I was that little boy sitting on that gaudy shag carpet in front of my black-and-white TV just awestruck by what I was watching. This is truly impressive, especially for the price. Now, if only they can build a phaser that can actually stun people. 🤣

This is a damn masterpiece of prop building.

Have been waiting on this for years!!! Glad we are finally getting there! Will be great along side my WC phaser and comm! Always loved these classic trek prop and can't wait to complete the set!

Awesome episode! Love to see the two geek out over this Tricorder. Real fun wach!

Yesterday I used and held one of these at the Energizer Bar at San Diego Comic Con. I was absolutely speechless. It was amazing, delivering everything envisioned and more.

The addition of the captains logs is genius!!

I was on board when it was announced. So glad that you took the time to make it as awesome as possible.

My mate Adam is a science teacher, from time to time when his questions to class are not receiving the hoped response, he will quietly get his model tricorder out & walk round with it , waiting to be asked what he’s up to he responds “ ...just scanning for life forms” god bless great teachers👍😀

This is stunning. Just a fantastic ultra quality prop.

Watching Adam in the first three minutes of this trying to keep his hands from opening the box is magical. Signed up for this and it will be $300 well spent. I have spent more on less.

ive never even watched star trek, but this thing is just amazing. It gives me the same excitement as a really cool tech product would do. Because it feels like a real thing. Im hoping to see more replica's with this attention to detail, because seeing something with so much depth is delightful.

I had (still have?) a TNG era tricorder toy from the 90's. Got it on eBay and carried it daily to school; dress code was either a red or blue polo and nothing else. That tricorder (and a pin) let me cosplay everyday that I wasn't stuck in a religious fundamentalist school... I was a marooned Starfleet Officer attempting to integrate with a strange, blood obsessed culture. (Always with the blood! Washed in blood, drinking blood, eating flesh. What's up with that? It really is a very gory bloody religion!) Anyway, my tricorder was like a lifeline. A totem. A symbol of science. It was my little defiance and one of a select few comforts in life. TL;DR I love Trek and I'll be buying one immediately.

This is one of the coolest geek toys I have ever seen. Back in the day, the TOS Tricorder actually seemed centuries ahead of our time, and I never imagined we see a replica of it that was so advanced and functional as this one here. It shall be mine. Oh yes.

I've been on the list to get info about this for years! Can't wait for it to come out! Looks amazing!

OMG!!! I have been waiting for this for sooo long!

I love that they just went above and beyond for making this. They could have not done half of this stuff and it would have been good, but adding in all those details and extra things really shows the care and love that went into making it.

Adam's glee at this item is infectious, I was grinning the whole time simply from his reactions.

I remember having the Revell model kit of the landing party set. communicator, phaser, tricorder. So much fun pretending.

I’ve never been super big on Star Trek but this thing is incredibly cool.

I love how it's like a dvd feature inside a replica prop

A perfect start to the week- wonder, enthusiasm, optimism, appreciation, and perspective!

This is gorgeous, and Adam asked every question that I wanted answered…❤❤❤

As someone who is in the very beginning stages of a small business, I am loving all the information I am learning I can use for the product I am about to release. Incredible content.

Love Adam's reactions and the joy in the creator's voice as he is telling the story!

This is a dream come true. I am so overwhelmed. Kudos to the Wand company.

Registered immediately! This will pair well with my Communicator and Phaser from The Wand Company 😁❤️

I don't know about you guys, but it feels darn good just seeing and Just hearing Adam fix and do science-based projects even in schools would be really cool 😎

TO hear Adam exclaim a joyfull OMG is rare! Its going to be epic!

When the captain's log plays in this video, it gave me chills.

Yesterday I started watching Star Trek: Enterprise again, then today Adam is unboxing some beautiful Star trek memorabilia 😎

Ah the TS-120. A bit more likely to explode, but a classic.

That thing is incredible!!! I want one!!!

I need to get one of these for my Dad hopefully before he passes way. He has always been a huge fan of Star Trek!!! I hope it comes out soon..

wow so freaken cool!

Outstanding! I must have one. I honestly expected it to be more than $300. I do hope it does the warbling whistle scan sound it's so famous for - I didn't hear that during the demo

This is the greatest replica prop I've ever seen 🙌

The level of detail put into this is everything I dream about when I think about doing a project but never get to.

What a magnificent object! CHILLS running down my spine, CHILLS.

I imagine it would be hard for people who are not Star Trek fans to be unimpressed with this.

Superb! I've never been able to grab one of TWC phasers, but I was lucky enough to be gifted one of their communicators. It is by far one of the best things I own.

Ordinarily, I'm not a big collector of props. But the Star Trek items The Wand Company has put out, The phaser, communicator and yes the mood rock, have all been amazing. The tricorder somehow manages to top all of those and I can't wait to get one. These are usable touchstones to something that's been a part of my entire life. Also love that Adam, who's spent more time around famous props than maybe anyone still geeks out at how cool this is. I hope it never stops being cool for him or for any of us. 🖖🏾

In the 70's I built my own out of cardboard. Imagination > $$.

I’m waiting for the day some cosplayer from RPF wants an in-universe accurate matter replicator so much they just design and build one that really works.

This thing was a labor of love. The best collector toy ive ever seen. These are going to go way up in price when they are gone.

I've never even watched a full episode of star trek and they've got me wanting one of these. The detail is insane!

This looks awesome!

Hello, Adam!! 🙋‍♂️

Many years ago I was a developer on an early mobile application -- this was years before the iPhone, on Palm Pilots and later Windows CE, so it was pretty sci-fi to the users, and many of them were skeptical. I did many a demo at trade shows to people who'd never held a handheld computer before, and I learned an important lesson from that experience: let the customer play with the toy. I can tell Adam is itching to touch this thing, but Chris does the unboxing for him, and spends most of the demo with the device in his own hands while Adam is watching and occasionally reaching over just to touch the thing. You should pay attention to that impulse to touch and respond to it. It's natural to want to be in the driver's seat when you're showing a product because after all you know all about your product and the punter knows nothing. I get it: it's *time efficient* to do the demo that way, or it would be if the goal of the demo is to perform a brain dump from you to the punter. But the real goal of the demo is to engage the customer with the product emotionally, and that's much more powerful if you let the customer run the demo while you try to guide him. For example Adam is delighted when he notices the disk insertion/release mechanism as Chris is using it. Imagine how much more powerful that delight would be if he discovered it himself.

For anyone like myself that grew up watching TOS when it first came out (how many kids tried to give the Vulcan nerve pinch, this Tricorder is like the pot of gold, the level of detail and the functions just blow ones mind.

"He's dead Jim, you get his wallet and I'll get his Tricorder."

There was a ds9 x original series crossover and it reminds me of Dax who's symbiote reminded her of how nice the old tricortors

So much thought, work, effort, and love of the show went into the creation of this prop reproduction. I've been watching the development occurring over the years now and looks like it is about to become a reality. WOW!

This blew me and my wife's mind. Its definitely going to be an addition to our geek library of toys and props.

I hope Mangy_Dog gets his mitts on one of these and does his... magic to fill it up with proper technology like he did with his Voyager tricorder, which is probably one of the most amazing piece of fan made prop i have ever seen.

Adam: "So, when can we expect to get our hands on this wonderful tricorder!?" Wand: "We were thinking only 3 to 7 more years to finish up the fine points and make it perfect. Then we'll post a release date on our website that is a year away from the date that we promise" I've been waiting for Wand to finish this up for so long that I fear I may die of old age before I actually get to buy one.

I hope they can demo this in exactly this way - on camera - to every one of the living original series actors. That would be wonderful to watch.

Absolutely GORGEOUS. And only $300-350?? TAKE MY MONEY

Adam is jonesing to pick it up and hold it the entire time. Lol. How long can he hold out?

I would have preferred the TNG Tricorder - but this is neat..!

WOW. Thank you, Adam, for showing this!

Wants one 😎

But do you have the video Spock slowed down with stone knives and bearskins from City on the Edge of Forever? [And seconds after I asked, he showed us the video :-]

Being a kid born in 1961, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Now I am tempted to get this and the other props... I am sure this is not inexpensive... the detail and quality are superb. Well done to the manufacturer. They obviously understand the target market.

The moment I got the email from the wand company saying you was showing the Tricorder in a video I was so hyped and my god it was worth the wait. It's so beautiful and accurate and the fact it's actually functional blows my mind. I remember having the toy version in the 90s and loved it but naturally imagining it to work for real and now that time is near for me to own a real one.

Put your reading glasses on bro... no shame in it!

Ok the sounds settled it. I need one

I'm retired now. But I don't remember in all my years of working, ever being this excited about anything work related, as Adam was on the unveiling of this Tricorder.

I think this is very cool, but for $350.00+ S&H+ tax, i think I'll buy some groceries and pay my electric bill...