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Originally Posted by JayUtah
As for pepper shakers, the doo-dad that Dr. McCoy waved over his patients -- the remote sensor for the medical tricorder -- was a salt shaker.
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As I recall, they initially got that doo-dad to be a futuristic salt-shaker, but it was so futuristic they were afraid no one would recognize it as such. So it ended up being a medical instrument instead.