While there’s still something undeniably cool about the flip-open communicators used in the original Star Trek, the fact is ... of WiFi “Communication Badges” in the early 2000s that ...

But in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starfleet personnel wore communicator badges on the left breasts of their uniforms. A California start-up called Vocera has created a similar device you pin ...

If you are not familiar, these badges are small, lightweight communications devices similar to the famous Star Trek communicator, which allow users to talk to other individuals via VOIP.

And with the recent premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, there's bound to be a supernova explosion of new items. The Bluetooth communicator seriously looks like an exact replica of the one from the ...