H/T to HardOCP for pointing this out.
Oh, crap!! What is 1/2 hour in one of THOSE things going to cost?
I wonder how much THAT thing will irradiate us.
Maybe now we can examine Barbara Boxer’s brain.
But can it see a Chicago Democrat’s conscience?
IBM will be happy cuz it’ll take several terabytes to store the images from a single scan. AND eat up loads of teraflops to render the images etc etc.
Oracle will be happy because of the document mgmt opportunities it opens up.
Software developers will revel in the computer-aided diagnostic horizons now visible.
Hillary! and 0bama will deplore the fact that it’s not available to all at no cost.
Cheers!
IBM is also supplying the chips to enable fast 3D reconstruct of MRI images as well. Pretty cool stuff from about 1:40 on in this video.
http://www.mc.com/mercury.aspx?langtype=1033&id=10045