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Friday, November 13, 2009
Your Deteriorating Internal Organs, Reduced to an Xbox Game [Thiscyborglife]
3D medical imagery has always been fascinating to me: generating 3D models from film footage is still a fledgling tech, while medical professionals render guts on a daily basis. And sometimes, apparently, connected to Xbox controllers.
Researchers at Iowa State University have designed software that can quickly and simply render a detailed 3D model of a patient's MRI and CAT scan results. The software, called BodyViz, claims two core advantages over similar technologies: It's easier to use, and it's set up to use with an Xbox 360 controller out of the box because, let's face it, to the latest crop of med school grads, old-school mice and trackballs are lame, bro.
Add a couple of stock FPS weapons, hook this thing up to some robotic arms with knives, fire up the laparoscope and bam: surgery, revolutionized. [IA State via BoingBoing]
This week, Gizmodo is exploring the enhanced human future in a segment we call This Cyborg Life. It's about what happens when we treat our body less as a sacred object and more as what it is: Nature's ultimate machine.
Google's SPDY To Make Websites Load Faster [Google]
Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/rQ95iXtIQD4/googles-spdy-to-make-websites-load-faster
While the lab tests aren't the best reflection of how the protocol would work under real world conditions, they are an encouraging start to Google's project. [SPDY via Chromium Blog]
Why Aren't More People Talking About the Palm Pixi? [Chart Of The Day]
Compared against the Droid Eris, the decidedly secondary, little-advertised rebranded Hero that happens to be launching alongside the Droid Droid (and also happens to be the cheapest new Android phone on the market), the Pixi's hasn't been driving much Google traffic at all, according to Google Trends. More odd is that even with reviews starting to hit, exciting deals showing up online and a release date rapidly approaching, the Pixi's buzz is flat. Yes, that Pixi—thelegitimately interesting handset aimed at a broader audience than its much buzzier predecessor. Hm.
A couple of points: Although I searched for "Droid Eris" in quotes, there's a good chance the Eris is getting a leg up on Google searches by piggybacking on the hyper-hyped Droid Proper. Also, I've seen three people, two of whom work with gadgets for a living, write "Pixi" as "Pixie" in the last 24 hours, which is funny! Also: probably a bad sign, for the buzz. But still, that explains a disparity, not totally flat interest, or the weirdly tiny bump in attention the phone got when pricing was announced back in October. General public: what gives? [Google Trends]
Intel Deems The Dual Core Atom 330 Too Hot For Netbooks [Intel]
Testing done by computer builder Haleron revealed that the N330 couldn't match the, now used, two-chip N270 processor in speed all the while actually being worse on battery life. Guess that, along with its need for an internal cooling system, explains why resellers have been trying to get rid of the N330 as quickly as possible. [Newswireless]
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