Gizmodo’s The Next Interface is a weekly series that explores the exciting—and perplexing—world of wearables in all of its evolving form factors. From fitness bands and smartwatches that track your heart rate to wireless earbuds and headbands that read your brainwaves to smart glasses that shove the internet closer than ever to your eyeballs, we’ll analyze them all with optimism and a healthy dose of skepticism. For 60 years, Star Trek ‘s vision of a future utopia has captured the hearts and minds of audiences—and inspired them to make its far-flung technologies real. From warp speed to transporters, and from medical tricorders to phasers, much of  Star Trek ‘s technological dreams are still out of human reach. But one enduring piece of kit that inspired the technology that sits in our pockets every day underwent its own technical revolution across the franchise to reach the form we know it in now: the combadge. Creating Communication © Paramount The combadge didn’t start out as such, of course.…