Editorial: Digital gadgets and computers in dermatology

The last decade of the 20th century saw lot of things that had been science fiction or fantasy converted to reality. For example, the 1960s iconic television show Star Trek introduced a flip communicator that seemed to have inspired flip phones. The same show s medical tricorder, with its diagnostic scanning wand, is not yet a reality, but, with a variety of noninvasive diagnostic devices in all areas of medicine including dermatology, we may be getting closer.