Life meets Trek: Walter De Brouwer at TEDxSanJoseCA 2012

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Science & Technology

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Walter De Brouwer is the co-founder and CEO of Scanadu at NASA Ames. The Sunday Times magazine has called De Brouwer a "collateral thinker." Walter De Brouwer wants to change the way healthcare works in the world. Scanadu is developing a real life Tricorder similiar to those from Star Trek.  De Brouwer is also the founder of Starlab, specializing in Blue Sky research.

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